Lets Rethink Human Rights: Does the ECHR Actually Boss Britain Around? So, after Part 1, we’ve got the basics down: Britain helped build the ECHR, it was quiet for decades, and then the Human Rights Act made it suddenly relevant. Fine. That’s the history. But the real question most of us quietly…

Right, cards on the table: When someone mentions “the ECHR”, most of us picture… well, something vaguely European and annoying. A foreign court. Bureaucrats. Deportation arguments. Cats. All that stuff. Turns out the real story is a bit different. So this is just me walking through it, and you can…

If culture wars explained falling birth rates, the numbers would line up. They don’t. Housing costs, insecurity, and delayed stability explain far more than identity ever could. Let’s rethink the blame. #LetsRethink #Demographics #Housing #UKPolitics

So they admit the near 90% upper income tax bracket, over 50% corporation tax, Nationalised industries, strong unions were good .. I am pleased to hear that cos you know what .. the more I research more I start to think the same :-)

We argue about migration like it caused population change. But UK population growth actually stopped first. Longer lives, later inheritance, weaker pensions, expensive housing — families didn’t opt out. They were priced out. #PopulationGrowth #Housing #UkPolitics #LetsRethink #SystemsThinking

Introduction to my Audio Video offerings to support my political posts. #LetsRethink #Ukpolitics #SystemsThinking

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…

We’re told the NHS can’t train enough doctors. But medicine is oversubscribed — UK citizens want the jobs. The training places just aren’t there. So what would it actually take to fix this for the next 50 years? #NHS #HealthPolicy #UKPolitics #SystemsThinking

9am - New Years Day - and I've already broken my New Years Resolution. 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

AND WHAT THE UK COULD LEARN The UK is not alone in running a universal health system. But it is almost unique in constantly rebuilding its health architecture. Other countries rearrange their health systems about as often as they repaint post boxes. We rebuild ours like a kitchen remodel every…

Listen to Hysnaps Political Investigations on @rss.com Currently trying out various AI tools to generate vocal summaries of some of my Blog posts. rss.com/podcasts/hys...

A quick 6 min video summarising my blog series on the UK's 300 year Debt war. https://youtu.be/Ua7i9AVmn5k #ukpolitics #hysnapmmh #GovernmentDebt #PoliticalHistory #LetsRethink

STRUCTURE, ECONOMICS AND INCENTIVES In Part I we saw how the internal market emerged. Part II explains why it never achieved what its architects intended. The answer lies not in ideology, but in economics and structure.

Lets Rethink HealthCare: Reforms, Fragmentation and a Paradox. There’s a line often attributed to the Roman army: “The only constant is change.” If that doesn’t describe the NHS, nothing does. And during the 1990s, when yet another restructure rolled in, someone in a Birmingham hospital taped a…

Forget abstract tax charts. In this post I look at six real personae – from low-paid renters to top 1% earners – and ask: what does funding private-level education for every child actually cost you? #LetsRethink #UkPolitics #Education

We talk a lot about “church schools” in Britain — but almost never about who actually pays for them. I started digging into the data expecting a small technical footnote. What I found instead was a much bigger mismatch. #LetsRethink #UkPolitics #Education

“Spending 7% of GDP on education is madness!” Except that’s roughly what high-performing countries already do. Time to check our numbers against the Nordics and asks: is Britain willing to be normal? #LetsRethink #UkPolitics #Education

Very true.. also in the line of give a man a fish he will eat today teach a man to fish he will have food forever.. of course assuming a .. he like fish and b.. there are fish available to catch

What does a fully funded, modern school system really cost once the dust settles? Time to add up the staffing, estate and maintenance and lands somewhere very specific – and less scary than you might think. #LetsRethink #UkPolitics #Education

There’s a strange thing about British education policy: we talk endlessly about structures, governance, logos, and accountability frameworks… …but almost never about the people who actually make the whole thing work. #LetsRethink #UkPolitics #Education

Hold on — we’ve spent forty years reforming education. Remind me again: did any of it actually help? Because if you listen to ministers, each reform was a bold fresh start. A revolution. A transformation. A new dawn of excellence. #LetsRethink #UkPolitics #Education

🚨 NEW: The US has imposed sanctions on British citizen Claire Melford for being an "agent of the global censorship-industrial complex" Melford, who leads the monitoring website Global Disinformation Index, is now banned from entering the US

Got to say Trent had it - youtu.be/f6-rwHc5MZY?...

You can’t have smaller classes without more humans and more rooms. Time for the practical bit: teachers, TAs, mothballed schools, vacant offices – and how we actually make space for better education. #Rethink #UKPolitics #Education

You forgot Tories: sold of your social housing and stopped councils from building more. Tories: sold of our national assets to enrich their friends, now 58.5% of Uk shares are held by overseas organisations and individuals. Tories: STOLE MY MILK. anyone got anymore?

Give @aidthompsin.bsky.social a watch, he's an entertaining and informative commentator on those involved with the far right. If you can also join his patroen as unlike certain groups we don't have mysterious oversea backers offering to support work like his.

Another worthwhile read from full fact, it is a shame that there appears to be a group of organised bad faith actors that are attempting to undermine our society by trying to breed dissent against our govt. They have a hard enough job trying to turn our economy and country.

“Spend £100bn more on schools and GDP will explode!” or “Raise taxes and everything dies!” Both are wrong. Lets dig into the boring-but-crucial bit: what really happens to the economy if we do this. #Rethink #UKPolitics #Education

This is the result of a systemic failure to invest in uk services and infrastructure for decades.. please remember which party has mainly been in power and has overseen and compounded this.

An interesting read

Absolutely.. the system should be designed to support those thar need it.

We talk about “world-class education” a lot. In Part 1 of this series I do the rude thing and cost it properly: funding every UK child at private-school levels. No slogans, just numbers – and it’s not as mad as you’d think.

I know its a bit late - but just found this - and I have to say the investigations I've been undertaking, end up finding the same.. give Jimmy a watch youtu.be/cOWSpdqVaKA?...

The UK doesn’t have a spending crisis — it has a secrecy crisis. Every year we lose £7.5–£14.5 billion to political secrecy: That’s £266–£514 per household, every single year. #LetsRethink #UkPolitics #Secrecy

What if I told you there’s a reform that makes the courts fairer, raises over a billion a year, and actually reduces reoffending — without creating a single new offence? I’ve been digging into the evidence. The numbers are… eye-opening. #UKPolitics #LetsRethink #Inequality #PublicPolicy

Ok so a step away from politics - err not actually - I would like to give the great, the wonderful, #PWEI, #PopWillEatItself the voice of middle england with #PreachingToThePerverted - I believe a song written for the far right.. music.amazon.co.uk/albums/B001G...

Full of good Korean food. Ready for Meryl Streek and the Bobbys 💕 #BobVylanAreAMajorThreat

JUST IN! '796 - The Instrumentals' by Meryl Streek Instrumental versions of the Irish post-punk meets spoken word songwriter’s debut, bringing the noise, beats, and volatile production to the fore. www.normanrecords.com/records/2121...

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…

The UK’s political system isn’t broken. It’s working exactly as intended, just not for the benefit of you or me. My radical request — is for BORING POLITICS … In this post I outline why what the UK really needs is not show and outrage but dull predictability. #Politics #Rethink #UKPolitics #FPTP

What if British politics didn’t depend on billionaire donors? In my latest post, I look at how public funding actually works, what happens when donor influence collapses, why free speech isn’t harmed, and why our ancient “loss of deposits” rule still warps who can stand for office. If we want…

Dear UK Public - I have some bad news. Our Government has an addiction - hysnapsmusicandmentalhealth.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/d... #UkPolitics #GovernmentFinances #LetsRethinkPolitics #HysnapsBlog #UKBudget #Political