mmh - health and education mainly. It's interesting that the US is grappling with trying to extend health coverage without the downsides of universal provision. They obviously won't have an exact copy of anybody else's system, but why? What would happen if the French system, for example, were transplanted whole to the US? Or to here? Who pays for clinical training in those systems?
Also training - these days, employee training takes place mostly in universities I think- employers complain constantly about the quality of school-leavers/graduates' skills, but also if you get any training except very organisation-specific 'inductions' you're doing well - surely this has changed. What do other countries do?
and mmh again - I don't think leaving the Eu out of it is good enough. There's got to be a more specific angle that comes out of trying's question, surely? How about the 'who decides the agenda' one? I am infuriated that as far as I could tell, no major party even attempted to put out information to counteract the UKIP adverts at the last election.
Another question - I have skimmed a book or two that says aid to the developing world is worse than useless. Usually they actually mean government-level aid, rather than charity-led aid. How do these two interact? Why is government-level aid so much worse (if it is) and what would be the consequences of its removal, or rechannelling?
another question - i saw a programme on the 70s recently which said that in the early 70s over 70% of the UK population considered themselves to be working class. What's the figure now, and what makes people decide they are a particular class? My first husband sometimes said he was working class despite having a management-level job in an IT firm and teachers for parents - did he have a point nonetheless? Who talks about class now and why?