3) i don't think we should have a healthcare system where the difference between a 30k bill and a 500k bill depends upon whether you can argue with a billing department for a few years

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People often joke that the dole was the best funder of the arts, But it was true. So much of what is taken to be a shorthand for that British culture rested/rests on that, and the constant destruction of that infrastructure has been one of British neoliberalism's worst crimes.

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Without social housing and the NHS and the welfare stare more broadly, we would have never had the British cultural explosion of the 60s and 70s with huge global influence wildly disproportionate to the UK’s size. That’s how working class kids became global superstars.

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Question for military/legal historians: What examples do we actually have of US soldiers - in the field, at any point since 1900 - who refused to follow orders when given a direct command to kill? And what happened to them? I suspect the idea of 'illegal orders' is more idealistic than realistic

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This precipitated me cancelling my direct debit. No longer able to justify helping fund that shite.

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