Although this video from a while back makes the point that Venezuelan oil is actually quite useful: bsky.app/profile/edco...

As other people have said, this seems to be across the public sector. Get treated in one London hospital and the hospital up the road has no access to your medical records from that visit. It's up to you to hunt them down and work out how to get them in front of the right consultant. Mind bending.

Yes exactly, it’s about what people want for themselves. Everyone should be able to choose.

Think if I had either of those things, I’d definitely want the choice of a gentle way out thank you very much. Not sure how it’s anyone else’s right to stop me having one.

My parents voted for Brexit because they genuinely believed everything had gone to shit - even though their children and grandchildren were all happy, healthy, doing well and living lives unimaginable to previous generations. My parents couldn't explain the contradiction to me. It's very odd.

Easy to say in retrospect, but when I finally quit fags it was just a question of going through 4 or 5 ‘Oh god I can’t bear it’ moments and then it was done. Maybe try to see the panicky junky bits as part of the process – even a step on the way past it – rather than proof you can’t ever do it.