Purdey

They are all just Jimmy Saville in a robe.

Poor woman. The temple should never have admitted her. She needs hospital treatment.

What is wrong with religious people? Unfortunately, monks' attire doesn't make them holy.

No point in pouring a bucket of cold water over them I suppose. When the feeling starts, no other choice but to act before it dies off.

The way the media makes it sound; Reeves made the whole budget in secret and Starmer had no idea what was in it until she revealed it. Load of rubbish, there would have been at least some discussion, and everyone signed off.

I believe that, while the quality of healthcare in the US is good, as long as you can afford it, Musk cannot just lower costs without understanding why they are high. A key issue will be the culture of profit before people will be hard to shake. Except maybe for doctors and nurses (I hope), everyone involved is out to make profits, from the hospital administrators to pharmaceutical companies. I once had a discussion with an American economist about the pros and cons of the health systems in the EU and US. He was proud that a European hospital was forced to send a patient to the US because it had treatment unavailable in the EU. However, my point was, the patient would not have to pay for the treatment in the US, while an insurance company in the US would unlikely pay for someone to receive specialist treatment in the EU if unavailable in the US. The capitalist system was supposed to lead to lower prices due to competition, but the USA has the highest heal costs of any country in the world. So, what can Musk do? It isn't as if everyone in the US can afford healthcare, let alone the same healthcare as Musk. Hence the poor lifespan compare to similar countries. Moreover, there is an entrenched for-profit mindset that will keep cost to consumers high.

Maybe they should check the hotel swimming pool. Lots of scantily clad people there.

Getting old is an opportunity to find new interests and hobbies. You don't have to be bored of life.

Just in time for the new president to tell everyone to inject Clorox.

I am sure that Trump will pardon himself.

Most Americans don't understand how insurance works. Insurance is a way of pooling risk, not for saving up for it. In insurance, your insurer calculates the risk of people they insure and estimates how much they will have to pay in claims during a particular time period. They then charge their customers a “premium”. The total of the premiums should, if they’ve done their job well, exceed the amount of claims paid out, allowing the insurance company to pay their overhead (sales commissions and staff) and to make a profit. Insurance has worked this way for over 400 years now. So, when you pay your money to the insurance company, they use it to pay all the claims made against everyone’s insurance that year. They keep any surplus, but if there’s a deficit it comes out of the insurance company’s capital. That’s the deal. Every year, you pay a new premium, and the cycle starts over again. Most years, you will not make any claims, or will make minimal claims. However, if you’re in an auto accident or need an expensive operation. the pool will pay the costs (minus deductibles and co-pays) even if it far exceeds all the premiums you have paid or will ever pay. So people are using what you put in to pay for expensive items.

It won't matter. When there is a coup they tear up the constitution and absolve themselves of all crime. Next they will have to tear up a few laws. Those with the guns can do anything.

Facts have never been a strong suit of the incoming administration.

Glad to hear it isn't discrimination. 🤔 I suppose many people know that a whole website has been set up to inform which attractions have a dual price policy. Home | 2PriceThailand

Thank goodness the president is immune from prosecution now.

I can't see Starmer helping the UK by brown nosing. The UK is no longer in the EU so is a much smaller fish these days. Maybe he can get Trump to buy another golf course?

Having a friend. With some fava beans and a nice Chianti.

It all seems beside the point if the residents of Clacton, who have hardly seen Farage, don't reelect him.

Hence the need for education programs.

Yes

There are many reasons why kids get HIV. 1. Girls often don't insist on condom use as they don't want the boy to think they don't love them 2. HIV positive (mainly) boys sometimes don't take ART daily as they don't want their girlfriends to ask what it is for. In the case of PReP, explaining to a kid to take it to avoid HIV is difficult as it makes their partner think they are being accused of not being "clean". PReP is taking off in Africa but is accompanied by extensive education programs. Will that happen here?

I understand that Snowden did not sell information to enemies but revealed that the government was breaking laws to spy on ordinary people. Following his revelations, people knew for the first time how their governments were spying on them, hacking the messages of allies and breaking the law. The leaks were just embarrassing for spies. 15 Top NSA Spy Secrets Revealed by Edward Snowden

Presumably, he knew that by joining the Israeli armed forces this might happen.

Forgive me if I am wrong but wasn't Emily Damari taken hostage while the Conservative government was in office? It appears the effort to release her was in the Tory court for a long time.

Clacton? Wot's a Clacton?