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As a household, or even as an individual, if you only have one meaningful source of income, (your job), and if you cannot consistently raise enough through this mechanism, then logically you need to consider a second income source. We all know, or knew, someone who had a day job and then worked a coupleContinue reading “The answer is having more than one basket of eggs in your possession.”

I believe as a teacher to ensure that children do not fall behind due to this pandemic we take advantage of the school holidays and the new found online teaching skills teachers have acquired. I think that if schools were empowered to highlight the children they feel are most at risk of falling behind inContinue reading “Volunteer holiday teaching for catch up”

Create new NHS Hero country parks for every town, linked to the town and to other parks by footpaths and cycle ways. The parks should have space for walking and sports and provide performance and catering facilities for use by community groups and local businesses to stage free or affordable events such as food festivals,Continue reading “NHS Hero Parks to boost activity, improve health and build a sense of community”

The pandemic forced us to evaluate and, hopefully, appreciate our local environment. Hitherto under-utilised parks became a throng of activity and provided an invaluable resource to give us the physical and mental resolve to overcome the straightened times. We need to add to that. We need to add ecological complexity and improve our local environment.Continue reading “Buzz stops!”

Covid exposed serious deficiencies in the Japanese Healthcare system and many doctors and nurses now want to leave the profession. Japanese standards are high and these individuals will be well trained. Britain is seen as a great place to live in Japan and many of these who choose to leave the professions or are thinkingContinue reading “Employ doctors and nurses from Japan”

Given the large – and arguably unsustainable – quantum of sovereign debt held by central banks around the world (Federal Reserve, ECB, Bank of England, Bank of Japan, etc.) perhaps there could be a solution whereby the G20+ group of countries meet and agree to a one-off coordinated proportional reduction in debt held by theContinue reading “How can economies and central banks recover from highly elevated levels of indebtedness post Covid?”

Hayward submission Feb 2021 – Localisation by Simon Haben There have been many dramatic effects from Covid-19 already and more are to come. One particular issue that is becoming increasingly worrying is the effect on the local areas that everybody lives in. This document summarises problems that have arisen and provides solutions under a bannerContinue reading “Localisation”

We must put to work the massive additional savings pot of around £100 billion accumulated by mainly higher-income households whose income continued or even rose, if they work in an industry which has benefited, during Covid whilst their costs fell (see the Bank of England analysis presented to the MPC in November 2020). The countryContinue reading “How to put the £100bn savings of the Covid-beneficiaries to work”

Decades of focus on central public sector service provision, financial sector concentration and infrastructure have created incredible synergy for business and people in and around London, that other parts of the country find difficult to compete with. Regionalizing Britain In terms of regions, we would like the UK to consider making a new set ofContinue reading “Re-imagining the United Kingdom”

The Moral Economy: After we recover physically and mentally from Covid-19, we have a real opportunity to reform the economy to one which offers everyone economic justice along with a healthy and green environment. One that offers people well-paid jobs, truly affordable homes and properly funded public services; one that recognises the worth of allContinue reading “After coronavirus we can have a fair economy and a healthier and green environment”