Peter Rhodes on painless dentistry, secret Budgets and 'salting the earth' in Westminster
I checked Wednesday's item on South East Asia against my archives and found this reader's email from a column 12 years ago: “I am taking a new job in Seoul. Is this a good Korea move?”
Off to the dentist's where, after 75 minutes of pretending to be heroic, I emerged with two shiny new fillings and a wallet 70 quid the lighter. This strikes me as good value, so long as you don't obsess about the NHS's promise to be “free at the point of delivery,” a solemn political pledge which, like so many others, has vanished into the mists of time.
