Reading that, the sentence seems totally disproportionate to the crime. She expressed an opinion she probably didn't even really hold (I doubt if you gave her a mosque full of adults and an expl… (View Post)

Fair enough. Much of the angst around making people pay for social care is around "it's not fair that my estate gets wiped out if I get dementia, but not it I die of heart disease". My… (View Post)

Yes, but: a) That's pretty much what we have now. b) There was no proposal to insure against it. The problem is at the moment, if I took out insurance to cover some of my care costs, then once t… (View Post)

I think that some of the problems of funding social care are actually not that hard to fix, nor would the fix necessarily be terribly unpopular. Ideally, across society we want people to largely fund… (View Post)

Whilst that's a bit sad for them, surely it's only a different application of the genetic lottery which means I (like 99.99% of the planet's population) have little chance of competing… (View Post)