Paying people to lose weight? We should be taxing them if they don’t
The NHS is chronically short of money because a callous, tight-fisted Tory government won’t pay it what it needs. In fact, it is so short of money that, as we found out this morning, it can only afford to pay a mere £400 each to obese men in order to persuade them to lose weight (although in a trial they only succeeded in losing enough money to