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The dogma is with the right, with simplistic notions about a smaller state and lower taxes. The left is more about getting things done...

Also currently a victim of stealth privatisation. One tactic my (NHS doctor) wife has observed is the contracting out of various roles...

Pessimistic view of Starmer coming up (quelle surprise!) that he will win for Labour but with far fewer votes than Corbyn in 2017. In...

It is still cheaper and more effective than any private care system could possibly be. There's no reason why we should not aim at...

Attlee, Aneurin Bevan, et al, got things done.

I agree on the whole. This GE is particularly crazy, with a cast of scumbags and lunatics. Maybe we should start contemplating the next...

I cannot believe this thread is still rattling on. You are all concerned about and will be voting in an autocratic process called 'First...

https://equalitytrust.org.uk/scale-economic-inequality-uk/...

The problem is inequality. Over the last 40 years there has been a steady trickle of assets from the govt to the wealthy And there has...

In any case hand skills and general intelligence/capability are on the same spectrum - you don't have more of one and less of the other...

My daughter recently got her PhD and no she isn't as thick as two short planks.

I missed several of the political progs because it crossed with Sewing Bee. Not that I sew anything nowadays but I have done in the...

I'm prepared to agree with you on that one, Jacob.

Yebbut I haven't filled in the details yet! I'm saving it for later. :unsure:

48mm is a heavy and thick table top and unless it is very dry and stable then cupping could be more of an issue. I've done a few...