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The USA may have highest per-capita spending, but that hides the fact that you have a system where very few people OVERPAY for your health-care compared to much of the rest of the developed world. It doesn't mean it's evenly spent.

http://liberalconspiracy.org/2... : "For a direct comparison, that means that in England the government spends around $3,200 per capita on healthcare and covers the entire population whereas in the US the federal government spends around $3,700 per capita and yet covers less than a third of the population."

You should have a much better economy of scale, particularly with drugs purchasing, research and best practice. Yet it doesn't bear out in practice somehow...

Jason.

All is not rosy at John Lewis.

Cleaners at the John Lewis Partnership are to ballot for strike action at the flagship Oxford Street store. This is the first step in the revived campaign to win the Living Wage for all cleaners employed by John Lewis.

http://liberalconspiracy.org/2013/03/04/john-lewis-cleaners-ballot-for-strike-over-living-wage/

How is this possible if "John Lewis is employee owned"? Simple. Not everyone who works for John Lewis is an employee - there are also subcontracted workers, how are treated like shit, just like everywhere else.

It's not their fault, it's the Parliament making crappy laws, albeit most of them are lawyers, they either suck or are bought.
Paypal is a bank and like all banks they avoid paying taxes like the pest.

"Barclays Bank told by Treasury to pay £500m avoided tax"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17181213

http://liberalconspiracy.org/2010/10/18/banks-to-avoid-19bn-tax-bill-despite-bailout/
http://goodbanking.org.uk/archives/684

come on then you cunt i'll stick a knife down your fuckin throat now comeback and stop hiding from me

or

do you want me to come to your fucking house now with a rope and strangle you with it

to be grossly offensive? These were sent to other twitterers and it's probably these that prompted the arrest.

source: (LiberalConspiracy)

James Delingpole? Seriously? James "interpreter of interpretations" Delingpole? James "does not read any scientific literature" Delingpole?

That James delingpole?

Wow, what a great scientific source!

There is a bigger picture involved.

During the Egyptian revolution the telecom companies, instead of supporting the people, complied with and acted upon the requests of a tyrannical leader to shut down internet access, in an attempt to silence the people. [1]

They also complied to send out pro-government, anti-democracy [2] mobile text messages [3].

Don't buy Vodafone's excuse, they abide to a mad man's "emergency laws", while the people and journalists risked life and limb to have their voice heard. Vodafone agreed to his terms, a guy who is now facing the death penalty under charge or premeditated murder against civilians[5], and need to grow a pair.

And do you know why?
"Its not clear who paid for the messages which could amount to hundred of thousands of dollars worth of messaging."

[1] http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/01/2011128796164380.html
[2] http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/Content.aspx?id=133349
[3] http://liberalconspiracy.org/2011/02/03/unsolicited-pro-mubarak-text-messages-from-egypt/
[4] http://www.renesys.com/blog/2011/01/egypt-leaves-the-internet.shtml
[5] http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/24/us-egypt-mubarak-idUSTRE74N3LG20110524

I just wish all the Americans who post "but it's not free! you pay tax!" in every Slashdot discussion where public services of Europe are mentioned would stop. Everyone knows this already: it's the normal way of funding public services, and thus assumed to be the case. More people than I can be bothered to count replied to my comment with something similar.

Your suggestion isn't unreasonable. The British government has raised the amount universities can charge British students to £9000 (from £3000, but was £1500 when I started in 2004). There's a bigger maximum loan to go with it. Already they pay off some loan if you become a teacher (there's a shortage in some subjects). One problem with increased fees is you risk deterring people who don't want to have the debt -- typically the poorest students, who are the ones you're supposed to be helping.

(The first result for my search was that, which is interesting... I don't agree with Good-2 based on my own experiences, but maybe whoever wrote it knows better.)