You can't educate your way out of a demographic crisis. There was this thing a few years ago which some of us might remember called the Covid 19 pandemic, in which everyone was essentially put under … (View Post)

I'm a realist. Two things that there's little point in doing: 1. Ignoring problems just because they are challenging, but also 2. Worrying about things that you personally have almost zero control ov… (View Post)

We're not going to get one though. The scale of reform required to enable the country to live within its means - essentially, redistribution on a massive scale, or the dismantling of much of the welf… (View Post)

I've come to the conclusion that this and every future Government is going to fail, until something effective is done about both economic inequality and the dependency ratio. The measures required, w… (View Post)

FPT Addressing the last point first, if you raise enough money and use it to create a social care system that is adequate to meet demand then the crisis in local government finances mostly disappears… (View Post)