More Sunlight for the Uplands

Nine million people in England will either be paying healthier rates of insurance or else become a self-solving problem within the next decade and a half, according to a report by the Health Foundation. A rise in chronic diseases caused largely by "poor housing, unemployment, poor food and air quality" and other things our lords and masters don't much care about will coincide with the effects of the climate catastrophe and the final, much-heralded and overwhelmingly voted-for demise of the hated National Health Service. The deserving will survive and prosper and buoy up the average life expectancy; the poor will suffer and die, washed out of the world upon a cleansing wave of finger-wagging lectures about their work-life balance while rejoicing with their betters that there aren't so many wogs about these days. Nevertheless, the Health Foundation descends so far into communistic fanaticism as to suggest, if you please, a long-term plan, apparently on the dubious assumption that real people might find this state of affairs undesirable.