Category Archives: Politics

Lets Rethink Education: The Big Proposal

Lets Rethink Education The Big Proposal

What would it mean — really mean — to treat every child in Britain the way private schools treat theirs?
Not emotionally. Not rhetorically.
But financially, structurally, and systemically?

This first part is where we lay out the scale of the idea:
how many children we’re talking about, what we spend today, what private schools actually charge, and what the gap really looks like once you strip the politics out of it.

It’s the foundation for everything that comes later.

Yes, there are numbers (quite a few).
But stay with me — this is the easy maths before the complicated bits arrive.
And as we’ll see, once you look at the cost properly, the idea stops sounding absurd and starts sounding like something a serious country might actually consider.

Lets Rethink Secrecy: Shouldn’t Legally required Information be public domain?

The UK loses an estimated £7.5–£14.5 billion every year through political secrecy: VIP lanes, undisclosed lobbying, overseas donations, and suppressed corruption inquiries.
Brexit only promised £18 billion a year in benefit .. this would deliver .. with more guarantee a lot of that.
Evidence from Scandinavia shows that public tax and finance transparency reduces fraud, lowers inequality, and saves billions. The real crisis isn’t spending — it’s secrecy.

Lets Rethink Fines: Shouldn’t We Base them on how much you have?

The UK’s fine system hasn’t kept pace with inflation or income, leading to unfair penalties and huge losses in uncollected revenue. This post explores how index-linking fines and adopting income-based penalties could raise £1.6–£2bn a year, improve court performance, cut reoffending, and strengthen trust in the justice system.

Lets Rethink Laws: Should We Focus on the Harm Instead of the Method?

Ever wondered why UK laws feel outdated the moment they’re written? I’ve been exploring a surprisingly simple fix: write laws around the harm to the victim, not the exact action. It’s a lot less crazy than it sounds…

Why Boring Politics Might Save Us All

After over 27 days of digging through inequality, privatisation, democratic distortions, collapsing social care, slashed education budgets, chronic underinvestment, donor capture, and the small matter of Brexit, the conclusion is painfully obvious:

The UK’s political system isn’t broken.
It’s working exactly as designed — just not for most of us.

Yet ask any business leader, economist, or investor what they want and they’ll tell you the same thing:

“Please, stop swinging wildly between ideological extremes and give us something predictable.”

Please give us BORING politics

Boring politics is how countries become wealthy.
Boring politics is how crises are prevented.
Boring politics is how you attract investment.
Boring politics is how you rebuild trust.

Yes so at the end of this No wild solutions, just a plea for stability and long term thinking.

What Happens When We Stop Letting Money Run Our Politics?

Britain is increasingly an outlier in how it funds political parties and election campaigns. While other democracies use public grants, matching funds, donation caps, or voter-controlled democracy vouchers, the UK still relies heavily on private wealth — creating distortions, donor influence, and barriers to participation.

This post explores how international public funding models work, how they reduce donor leverage, why they don’t restrict free speech, and what would happen if Britain adopted similar reforms. It also examines the overlooked “loss of deposits” rule, a financial barrier that disproportionately affects smaller parties and independent candidates.

Is Democracy Expensive?

People often assume politics is extravagantly expensive: parties splurging millions, donors buying influence, elections being giant money-burning exercises.

So here’s the real question:

What would it cost if the Government paid all legally allowed campaigning costs – national and local – instead of political parties and donors?

I’m going to calculate it at the absolute maximum legal spending, assuming:

Turkeys, Christmas and West Minster: Why Turkeys Don’t Vote for Christmas

The UK’s political system isn’t broken — it’s working exactly as designed, just not for the public. This article explores how donor influence, privatisation, short-term politics, declining education, rising inequality and “swing” governance have created a nation stuck in permanent crisis. From the sale of nationalised industries to the collapse of social care and chronic underinvestment, the evidence points to one conclusion: without strict limits on political donations and a shift toward stable, boring, long-term politics, the UK cannot rebuild trust, prosperity or democratic resilience. Preventative, predictable governance is not radical — but demanding it in a donor-driven system is. This is why I am a radical leftist: because the system needs more than nudges; it needs rebuilding.

The Family Silver: What the UK got when it sold it.

Who benefited from Britain’s privatisation programme? This article explores how utilities, rail, energy and telecoms were sold off at undervalued prices, boosting institutional investors, executives and foreign owners — while the public faced higher bills, lower investment and rising regulatory costs. A clear, conversational breakdown of the UK’s great sell-off and what it really delivered.