Exhibit A: the rotten service we're offered from our suburban station. Full roster of half-empty commuter services operating during the week. Saturday: at least half the scheduled trains habitua… (View Post)

The NHS has, of course, been an established fact of life for such a very long time that it simply doesn't occur to a lot of people who might benefit from going private to do so. Private hospital… (View Post)

Fundamentally you're right. It's just a shame that so many of those expressing po-faced outrage over the treatment of the poor, delicate Emmanuel Macron and his hurt feelings are the self-s… (View Post)

Yes, very funny. Ditto your earlier contribution re: Australia. Your alternative idea being, presumably, that China's neighbours should all accept that they are hopelessly outmatched, that any k… (View Post)

One is obliged to point out at this juncture that the French, and the rest of the EU leaders in attendance, didn't think twice about ambushing the British Government at its own G7 summit, and tr… (View Post)