Recent content by duffer

Forgot to add, has pushed Israel's greatest ally into vigorously lobbying for a two-state solution and brought the Palestinian issue to the world stage far more effectively than any of his opponents could ever manage. Netanyahu is like Trump, a very stable genius.

Hmm. Launching 300 drones and ballistic missiles without expecting any of them to get through is putting a lot of faith in Israel's defence capabilities. Apparently it will have cost Israel and the west around a billion pounds to shoot them all down (BBC's Jeremy Bowen stated anyway.). As for...

I suspect Iran anticipated a bigger impact from 300 drones and missiles. Probably lucky for everyone that it didn't quite play out that way. I think it suits Netanyahu very well to try to stir this up a bit more - it distracts from Gaza and guarantees the West keep the weapons and support tap...

That would be a surprise. Ten minutes of research shows that Brexit has had a negative impact on exports overall, and is an ongoing drag on the economy. Whatever you're smoking in your pipe, you need to lay off it for a bit, you're hallucinating. You got Brexit done, now own that shit...

My Dad said that if I kept doing that I'd go blind. I asked if I could just do it until I needed glasses. 😄

Well argued, but I think where we differ is in the definition of authoritarian. I think the typical definition of authoritarian goes way beyond sugar tax, for example and into the realms of suppressing democracy and individual rights. Taxing sugar, or cigarettes, or booze, isn't the same as...

I'm getting adverts for an ad-blocker now, I kid you not. 😁

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Probably not for this thread, but I think it's entirely possible to be left wing and broadly libertarian. Controlling the worst excesses of capitalism is more about regulation of business and redistributive policies than removing individual rights, surely. The Political Compass website has a...

Direct quote from her website Suella Braverman MP : "I worked at the Bar for 10years (sic), specialising in Planning Law and Judicial Review." Is the problem that you can't read, or that you're too lazy to bother? I'm not trying to embarrass you either. I don't think you're capable of that...

Yep, the gutters will be clogged with leaves and detritus, the benefits of having lots of trees nearby. Don't actually have a window cleaner on a regular basis, or I'd ask them... Tempted to just have a crack myself... If I don't post for a while, you'll know it's gone horribly wrong. 😄

Need to sort my gutters out again. Any recommendations for someone reliable in the Coventry area? Or... I am tempted to just buy a decent set of ladders and sort it out myself, but it looks challenging. Any advice on that, team? (Believe it or not, in my younger days I was a keen but very...

It's a long read mate, but worth it if you want a detailed take on the issues around this. It is broadly as described elsewhere; the private companies to take the easier, profitable work, and let the NHS deal with the expensive, difficult stuff. It might get people treated faster, which is...

Politely, I'm not sure I can agree with that. You could argue the problem is that it's badly run, but the counter is that it's been substantially underfunded for a long time now, and the problems now are primarily down to that issue. (See below a report from the FT, hardly a lefty rag.) As for...

It's the same myth the Tories have been trotting out forever, that it is possible to resolve decades of chronic underinvestment in the NHS, with reform. (See also council funding, education, etc. etc.) No government in the last twenty years has been able to do it, it's a fiction.