I've mentioned the shambles of our local GP surgery before but my latest experience takes it to a whole new level. GP prescribes medication by...
Thanks @Plantminded I love that programme. It shows the reality of farming, particularly on a small scale. Long hours, crap income, and very few...
Regarding leaving children under 5 alone. A friend of ours worked in a local bakers and started work at about 6am. Her husband didn't like her...
If that was all it was doing I would be supportive of it, but it isn't. Any form of discrimination in favour of one section of society is...
Before long, the answer will be "The regulators on longer exist". The Chancellor has already sacked the head of one of the regulators basically...
He also wants to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America. @Nigel coad I agree those are a the utterings of a total nut job.
I hate to admit it, but he is doing/saying quite a lot that I broadly agree with, although not necessarily the way he's going about them. I see...
This Government seems to have all the money they need for the things the want to do. Dumping the Chagos Islands on Mauritius for example and...
We've had just about everything this morning. Windy first thing, then heavy rain, sunshine, than heavy rain again with hail, now dry and the sun...
Almost nothing electronic is completely made in Europe any more. Vast majority of components are made in Asia as their labour is so much cheaper.
@Fat Controller I feel your pain regarding hospitals. My wife was in hospital for 11 days after breaking her leg. At that time a load of...
I don't know the specific farm in question, so must defer to your greater knowledge of it, and the business plan of the farmer.
The farm which has invested in large machinery may well be diversifying and will be hiring the machinery out to other farms. That's potentially...
There is definitely something major wrong with the system when farmers can make more money by not producing food than by producing it!
Many farmers can't afford to stop supplying. They live pretty much from hand to mouth anyway. Not the big ones, but the big ones aren't the...
Trump has also apparently scrapped controls on drilling for oil and gas. All the changes that are being forced on us in the UK aren't going to...
Back to roundabouts - a small town we go to in Greece decided to replace a junction with a roundabout. The locals quickly decided that the bit in...
When the standards are only advisory they aren't worth the paper they are written on. If they are standards set due to potential fire risk they...
A couple of years ago I read about an NHS Trust which had either bought, or was buying, EV ambulances. Real world tests showed they could only do...
Kier Starmer and Rachel Reeves obviously had a sneak preview of the report and determined to avoid that happening to the elderly in Britain.
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