So authors shouldn’t exist? Get rid of the arts, you’re saying.

Then they’ll still need border guards, soldiers, police, judges. The “good German soldier” myth was created because if every Nazi were to be prosecuted, the nation would be paralysed.

Why are women so frowned upon in your country?

It was getting attention in 2018 too. John Oliver even did an episode about it. People just don’t care as long as it isn’t them.

This has been going on for many years.

It was founded on lies and lobbying. Remember “taxation without representation”? Americans were on a 90% tax discount compared to the British. America was founded off the back of the particularly idiotic, greedy and gullible, and they’ve continued on that path to present. And some fool gave them weapons.

Event of the decade in Worcestershire. If they had anything else to do they’d be doing that.

Given there was only one writer, and he knew nothing about computing other than how to turn one on, nope.

He doubled down exponentially because he can’t be wrong.

They were part of a land grab that took it from the Spanish along with Guam and some other places. Gained independence in 1946.

Lack of hostile land grabs? West of the Mississippi, Texas, Hawaii and the Philippines would beg to differ.

It’s the whole premise of The Capture.

Greenland is not a part of the Schengen Area, and a passport is required for travel to most of the EU, except travel to Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway or Sweden where any photo ID is acceptable, if perhaps not entirely practical.

How shitty Americans must think the world is.

You’re unfortunately very mistaken there. That fundamental was shattered in 1993 when social care was separated from the NHS (free at point of use) and instead given to local government (means tested pricing at point of use). Ever in search of savings for their limited budgets, local governments promptly privatised and outsourced their services. We went from 65% of care home spaces being publicly funded at the end of the 1970s to 6% a decade ago. At-home care went from being 95% publicly funded in 1993 to 11% in 2012.

This sector of healthcare is beyond breaking point, with over 100,000 unfilled staff vacancies in care homes alone. This creates a backlog as NHS hospitals can’t discharge patients who need residential care that doesn’t exist.

If you’re expecting a free-at-point-of-use care home later in life, think again. That is gone. Unless you have a large accumulation of savings to burn through things don’t look rosy.

The NHS has already largely been privatised. GPs were always private contractors but now GP groups have been increasingly bought by US companies, with the largest GP group in England, The Practice (half a million patients), being completely US owned

NHS Logistics was privatised 2006-2019 (part of DHL, later Unipart) before becoming a government owned company.

NHS internal operation capacity has essentially frozen since 2014, with the increase coming from the private sector. Over a third of “NHS” hip and knee operations, 60% of cataract operations, and a fifth of operations overall are contracted out to private companies.

In terms of “internal” structure the service has been broken up into more than 500 legally distinct “Public Benefit Corporations” who can set up commercial subsidiaries and bid for provision contracts between themselves, as well as entering into commercial partnership with foreign companies such as the Mayo Clinic’s involvement in Oxford’s NHS provider.

Social care has been almost totally privatised at this point.

The current health secretary, Wes Streeting, is in favour of increased private involvement in the NHS so expect the trend to continue.

With its support for capital punishment, the Democrats would fit somewhere in the far right in most of Europe.

The US doesn’t use imperial measures. It uses US customary measures which often have the same names but are significantly different.