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Health care spending - as % of GDP. On the admin costs, the UK is below average eg Germany spends around 5% of it's health budget on admin, the UK around 3%. Of course, as with overall spend, US admin costs are the outlier - over 8% ie 2 to 3 times more than the UK. I can't view the report...

Souček on Antonio tonight: "He is West Ham's all-time leading scorer." I know that he only knows English football through the premier league and it must be all emotional etc when a team mate has an accident like this , and it is his second language, but it can be so depressing to see any ref...

As I say, take a closer look at the longer history of how Islam has been practised in Turkey, and not what has happened in Algeria etc.

I think you need to have a closer look at the history of Islam in Turkey, and the current position of Erdoğan/Turkey and the relationships esp re: Sunni and Shia. OK, very few predicted the revolution in Iran and the rejection of any semblance of 'western' values there. I guess the same could...

Anyone ever won a test match by an innings and 500 runs? Would be good to set that record....... oops, mis reading the card ... Watching from Brasil. Chucking it down here. They need to get a move on. In my Ladybird book of the Southern Hemisphere, Brasil to NZ is like Old Trafford to...

Erdoğan is a wolf in wolf's clothing isn't he? Who plays a game playing off interests between Europe, the Middle east, Russia and the countries along the old silk road. In fairness though Turkey are the only Nato member who have publicly shot down a Russian jet fighter. Although Authoritarian...

In Brazil for a few weeks ... watching this in a beach place in São Paulo State - nobody wants the Rio team to win ... I have been invited along to the last Palmeiras game of the season at the weekend (v Fluminese). It was all set up to be their title winning game but Botafogo beat them 3-1 in...

I have a business in Bengaluru. Some of the best food I have had anywhere. Terrible thing to admit but my 2 business partners always pick the restaurants (and pay), so I often don't register the name. 13th Floor This is fairly central on MG road. Very unfashionable looking buidling (top of...

.... talking himself out of a job? Howe - "I'm pretty pleased with the first 60 minutes albeit we were losing the game 2-0." .... akin to Mrs Lincoln's "Apart from that I really enjoyed the show."

..... serious question, are there many examples of business people making a success in running a country/large gov department etc? I was in a conversation about this last week. Maybe a handful, if that? It is probably a completely different skill and, as said here, Musk paid $44Bn for Twitter...

**** you Musk Janja Lula has the right approach to gringos interfering in local politics. ..... X has been blocked in Brasil as Musk won't comply with local media laws. Needless to say he supports Bolsonaro.

As I said, farm work, as with many other jobs, can be incredibly hard. But if you are a farmer who.actually owns the business, as a taxable asset, farmland (and associated assets) can be tax exempt up to £3M for a farming couple. As opposed to £1M for a non farming couple. In both situations...

no, they are not, but to quote Clarkson: Jeremy wrote in The Times, "Land is a better investment than any bank can offer. The Government doesn't get any of my money when I die. So let's not have him or Dyson speaking for farmers. There is no way that working on a farm is an easy life...

..... the Rest is History duo (reportedly) make £100K a month from it! It has even broken the US market! .... and the rest ... The Rest is Football is only the 3rd best revenue earner for Goalhanger ... Goalhanger may be up for sale. As a founder, I guess he owns at least 33%. I assume Lineker...

I will be watching my Abroath v Bon Accord DVD tonight (OK magic lantern) to show how to go from 4-0 to 36-0.

I was at that game. At 7-0 Souness started 'showboating' somewhere between the halfway line and the edge of the Wednesday box. The bloke stood next to me screamed (without irony), "Get an effin' grip ya Scottish p***". .... nothing changes .... In fairness it was the South Terrace. So this was...

vc fala portugués do Brasil?

As they don't say at RUSI, whatever ... We can't just dismiss the leading military intelligence analysis institute in Europe ( and arguably #2 globally) so readily. But a difficult military situation, now about to have a new political view overlaid. Differing views maybe relevant.

RUSI Before the US election but a site worth looking at occasionally. 100+ ex Nato senior officers and others on their associate staff. Not predicting that Trump will pull the plug immediately, but suggesting a new NATO position.

Totally dominant since half time.