Let’s Rethink the Blame:
UK birth rates didn’t fall because of migrants, women, or LGBTQ+ people. They fell because housing became insecure and families were priced out. The data is clear.
Monthly Archives: January 2026
Let’s Rethink Population Growth
Let’s Rethink Population Growth:
UK population growth is now flat. Birth rates fell, people live longer, housing became a pension — and migration filled the gap. Here’s how we got here.
Let’s Rethink This Series
Introduction to my Audio Video offerings to support my political posts.
Lets Rethink Fire Services: The Hidden Hero’s
The Fire Service: The Public Service Britain Forgot to Break — And Why It Quietly Succeeded
For the last quarter-century, almost every major public service in Britain has been pulled apart and stitched back together again.
The NHS endured wave after wave of restructuring.
Schools ricocheted from LEAs to academies to trusts.
Probation was privatised, then un-privatised.
Policing became a casualty of political formulae no one understands.
But one service — almost by accident — avoided the chaos.
The Fire and Rescue Service.
No internal markets.
No academisation.
No “transformational frameworks”.
No outsourcing lobby hovering over the budget line.
And while everything else was in flux, the fire service quietly did something astonishing:
Lets Rethink HealthCare: Doctors, Demand, and the Cost of Not Planning.
Lets Rethink HealthCare: Doctors, Demand, and the Cost of Not Planning.
We’re often told the NHS struggles because demand is unpredictable, people don’t want to be doctors anymore, or because training more staff is simply too expensive.
None of that is really true.
Demand has been rising for decades, driven by an ageing population and more complex care. Medicine remains hugely oversubscribed. And the cost of training enough doctors turns out to be similar to the economic value we currently lose by relying on a highly mobile workforce.
This post walks through how we got here, why the system quietly locked itself into dependence on overseas recruitment, what it would actually cost to fix both the future demand and the inherited deficit — and whether a redesigned model could still be working 50 years from now.
It turns out the NHS doesn’t have a money problem.
It has a planning problem.
Lets Rethink HealthCare: Another Broken Promise.
Ok so I ended the last post saying I wasn’t going to do this –
But I then got interested in investigating a few possibilities – so here we are.
WHAT A STABLE, MODERN, NON-FRAGMENTED NHS SHOULD LOOK LIKE FOR THE NEXT 30 YEARS
Other countries rearrange their health systems about as often as they repaint post boxes.
We rebuild ours like a kitchen remodel every election cycle.
So let’s explore systems that actually work — and what they teach us.
