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When people compare doctors starting salaries are they factoring in the cost of training. We're being told to ignore the likes of...

Next week it’ll be back to ‘Why aren’t there enough doctors to get me a GP appointment’

The general problem seems to be we’ve accepted that certain important jobs are just badly paid and a bit shit so that’s how it should...

I'm not a healthcare professional, but in teaching the working conditions are a far bigger issue than the pay. So there needs to be more...

This forum makes me laugh sometimes. A few pages back we were having a discussion about how the country is going downhill and one of the...

I would never buy from viagogo or stubhub. Firstly you're supporting resale at inflated prices. These aren't people who happen to have a...

Drove past this morning and the wasp is gone.

Bloody immigrants, coming over here, spending literally years working jobs that other people don’t want to do, expecting some kind of...

I wouldn’t say the CEO of Birmingham Airport really falls into this category, it’s not like he started out with an airstrip and a dream.

It wasn’t even the biggest increase, Heathrow’s got 85%. The point is, the rhetoric on this is completely different to when teachers and...

well at least they've had a successful year and didn't have to shut down for days because they'd ignored warnings to sort out the power...

Bloody firemen trying to live like kings

The point is that for a decade and a half we tried doing all of this on the cheap, freezing pay and gradually overseeing a decline in...

How do you think wages are set? Do you think there’s some correct wage we’re all aiming for? You get what you can negotiate with the...

To be clear, the happiest countries on the planet are also the most heavily unionised. They seem to manage just fine.