If the NHS is 'fair', give me unfairness any day

Did I ever tell you about the time the National Health Service relieved me of my piles? It's a painful story — and for many of you, no doubt, already far, far more information than you want. But I do think it goes a long way towards explaining our ongoing Eloi-like subservience to the great, slobbering, brutish NHS Morlock which we so rose-tintedly delude ourselves is still the 'Envy of the World'.

Look, if you don't want to read about piles (''roids' if you're American), I should skip on a few p