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Lifting lockdown
This has to come at some point, but how do we do it safely? It seems the two massive risk factors are: school and mass gatherings. Now, I don’t particularly think school itself is the risk… the ...
If I ruled....
I have to say, if I was the chancellor right now, I’d be following a very similar course. All I see are self employed people moaning about how they are getting no help....well it’s coming, so sh...
ASA bans sexist ads
Bennet’s catchy pop tune “mum has gone to Iceland” may be a historic lament if the ASA’s new rules kick in… The Advertising Standards Authority will no longer allow sexual stereotypes in advertis...
It's not about politics...
Annoyingly I keep on reading about how the local elections today “Will be a kick in the teeth for Lavbour/Tories/Greens”. Actually it’s not about that - that’s not what you should be voting for...
Trump
As much as I hate Trump I have a grudging respect for just how much he’s achieved in his first week of being president. I don’t think anyone else has been quite so productive, ever. Sure - I do...
safety pin
There is a post brexit campaign to wear a safety pin to show solidarity with immigrants already here. It started off as being a way of showing your support for immigration before the vote, and ha...
What would you cut?
Okay - let’s assume that all cost efficiencies and nonsense like MPs claiming spurious expenses have been cut… You need to find more savings in the budget and the only thing to cut are frontline ...
Social mobility
(Inspired by JustC’s post!) Where you have social mobility, you have booms. Look at Labour in 97, they got people behind them because they were prepared to change stuff. To improve the life of ...
a few more
All MPs expenses must have receipts for anything over £10 (as all businesses have to do!) and they would have to file these publicly so you could see what they are claiming as a parliamentary exp...
It starts...
TheMoor suggested I run for government… He’s either completely bonkers or a genius! How awesome would a world run by me be? It would be very much like Switzerland with loads of personal respons...
Book Description
Inspired by BBC Radio 4’s comedy show of the same name - what the world would be like if I ran it.
