I've sympathy with that point of view, and I think my preference would be for a hospital birth for that reason. The problem is that whilst a hospital birth trumps a home birth on this basis, a home b… (View Post)

Logical thing to do (so as not to shaft working pensioners too hard overnight) is to cut NI and raise IT by a couple of points a year every year until NI is zero - at which point it can be abolished.… (View Post)

The problem of somewhat inadequate maternity provision is not novel to the North of Scotland. My wife had our 2nd little one on Thursday night. It was a quick labour - she felt a bit sick eating her … (View Post)

Stupid if she does - it's yet another area where the increased tax revenue will turn out to be a mirage and the economic damage considerable. I think I've two classics with (free) tax running that ha… (View Post)

It was originally a rolling 25 years. Blair stopped it rolling (on the grounds that he didn't like the idea of the proles enjoying themselves with cars I think). For a long time the cut off was a fix… (View Post)