Yeah - letting people apply from France would presumably reduce border crossings massively. Mandatory French lessons also whilst waiting. But overall, there's no getting round the fact that the … (View Post)

Take out Eastern Europe though, which is poorer and didn't get vaccines until later (and in some cases used Russian vaccines)... and it's only Belgium & Italy who are worse. Italy got h… (View Post)

I didn't realize rich people didn't get the state pension, weren't getting vaccinated, didn't go to university etc. (View Post)

But apart from the infrastructure and the vaccine research, the healthcare & the schools, the universities & protection of the courts, the environmental standards and the workplace protection… (View Post)

That Labour majority is starting to tempt me... but it's probably just heart over head nonsense. In other news, the financial times unearthed this gem of a political study from 2009: https://dsp… (View Post)