In England 70% of health spending goes on the 15 million people who suffer from one or more long-term conditions. The twin challenges of people living longer and with unhealthier lifestyles, such as smoking, alcohol and obesity, mean that this number is set to increase dramatically. Since few of these people will ever get better, …
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London has become a city state, divorced in many ways from the rest of the country. In the New York Times Sunday Review of October 13th Michael Goldfarb says that property in a London has become a “global reserve currency”. Well put! Every year, regardless of the world economy, property prices in Central London have …
One of the most “shocking scandals in Britain today”, is the corrupt nature of our child-protection system. The law rightly demands that in cases where state officials seek to remove a child from its parents, the identity of the child be kept secret. But somehow that provision has become so broad it is now a …
In America we are effectively governed, not by rational, educated people, but by spoiled brats, whose claim to fame is that they can gerrymander constituency boundaries and thus cannot be easily removed. They consistently ignore decisions democratically arrived at. Since they do not wish to govern responsibly, they not only should have their pay sequestered, …
Music festivals used to be all about the music. Not any more. A poll has found that only 45% of festival-goers are in it for the music – the rest are lured by the atmosphere, and the chance to “escape from everyday life”. The survey, by MSN, also found that 25% had slept with a …
