Negative Space: British
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- Yes, Prime Minister: The Complete Collection• (DVD)
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Jim Hacker ascends to Number 10. He even thinks he might be allowed to govern Britain.
- samizdata.net
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“A blog for people with a critically rational individualist perspective. We are developing the social individualist meta-context for the future. From the very serious to the extremely frivolous… lets see what is on the mind of the Samizdata people.”
“The Samizdata people are a bunch of sinister and heavily armed globalist illuminati who seek to infect the entire world with the values of personal liberty and several property. Amongst our many crimes is a sense of humour and the intermittent use of British spelling.”
- The Egalitarian Cruelty of the NHS
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“Debbie Hirst, a woman with metastasized breast cancer, wanted to take Avastin. The NHS refused to pay for it, saying it was too expensive. That much is par for the course in a system that holds down costs by rationing care according to standards set by a single central authority. But then Hirst, with the support of her oncologist, decided to raise the $120,000 she’d need to pay for the drug on her own, mainly by selling her house. The NHS said she was perfectly free to do that, but then she would have to pay for all of her care out of pocket, a financial burden that was far beyond her means.”
If I had to subtitle this eighties political sitcom, I’d call it “Screwtape Politics”.