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I sometimes listen to Radio 4 comedy programmes as well. ;)

Is it your firm opinion that pouring more money into the NHS will make it better? Because the NHS budget has risen by 32% after adjusting for inflation (from actual spend £94 billion in 2013-14 to budget £152 billion in 2022-23) and the improvement hasn't started to show yet. Evidence suggests...

Of the 7,000 cases settled, 40% were rejected out of hand and 86% of the remainder were accepted. So about half of the tiny proportion that have reached an initial decision, about half were accepted. It's impossible to get a reasonable estimate of how many of the remainder would be accepted...

The figure for approvals is actually about 3%, not 80%. Approx 3% are approved, approx 2% are rejected, and the remaining 95% are in limbo with no apparent desire to give them a decision. (And even those figures are only initial decisions. Presumably there are appeals and further decisions to...

That's my point. They have thrown vast amounts of money at the NHS and it has gone to the wrong places.

It really has. Bodian has helpfully posted the actual graph above that makes that clear.

"In real terms" means adjusted for inflation. The 2013-14 budget would have been £90-odd billion, which adjusted to today's prices becomes £115 billion. Here's the actual spending by NHS England 2013-14, and it was £94.6 billion. See page 135...

So we set up an asylum processing centre in Albania (or in France) for Albanians who want to claim political asylum in the UK. Then what? Every application gets turned down. Will that stop them from crossing the Channel? Of course not, because the very reason they cross the Channel is...

T'other way round. What I'm saying is that although people in your circle use cash only to buy drugs, other people still use it for legit purchases.

Think how much worse it must be to be French. Remember that these people drowned because they wanted to get away from France. Unless there is to be literally unlimited immigration, then safe routes wouldn't help. The majority of channel-crossers would be at the back of the queue for legal...

That's what goalkeepers do. They get between the man and the ball and try to stop the ball. If they aren't to be allowed to do that, what's the point of them? The keeper didn't move after the ball had been kicked. If it was a foul, the foul was done when the goalkeeper moved in front of the...

We're not all the same. You appear to be projecting your own lifestyle onto everyone else, but not everyone lives like you.

Correct. They have already taken £140m out of club funds.

Underinvestment in the NHS? In the past 10 years, the NHS England budget (and the rest of the UK has seen similar) has increased in real terms by 32%, from £115 billion to £152 billion. The extra money hasn't improved the service one jot - it hasn't gone on nurses, it hasn't gone on extra...

I don't agree. If it was, then no winger would ever have to beat his man; all he would have to do would be to klck it past him and run into him. I just don't see the school of thought that says a goalkeeper must not get between the forward and the goal because it will be a foul if he doesn't...

She has a point if she's correct that street lights don't come on till 5. It's surely proper dark by then? Why would they be so late? If it's a school crossing point, it ought to be lit. Don't they have a light sensor anyway? But there's never an excuse for driving faster than what's safe...

The shocking thing about that is that there are more people who claim to be unable to feed their children than there are who can't afford a smartphone. It is frightening how people arrange their priorities. I agree that people who can't afford a smartphone won't be travelling long distance...

I think getting a driving licence is even more expensive than getting a passport! My mother's kept her driving licence, though she gave up driving years ago, especially because of the interfering busybodies and jobsworths that want to see it - but we never thought it would reach the point of...

Sweden has twice the population of the other countries. Death rate per thousand would be more informative. In the year ended September 2018, it was 27. But that was following "normal" years of low infection, not isolation years. So if this year we get a similar strenth of outbreak as in...

Which means not only that you have to buy an expensive passport for I.D., but you also have to buy an expensive smartphone to put the tickets on. See the cost of living thread for why this might not be a good idea!