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To this end I have 4 fairly simple proposals: 1, All public sector contract worth over £10,000 must be published within 10 days of signing (a narrow exemption for security will be allowed) 2, No company who donates to a political party may tender or be awarded a public sector contract – this includes donationsContinue reading “Corruption and the perception of it in public office”

Boris Johnson said in his book “Lend Me Your Ears”, “there are no disasters in life, only opportunities”. I wonder if he still thinks this in light of his government’s dubious prioritisation of public health during the COVID pandemic? Nevertheless, its important not to completely disassociate with such a sense of optimism. For while post-BrexitContinue reading “Britain’s economical and ecological plight post-Brexit”

There are two different needs – making the rules simpler, fairer and easier to understand – and transforming the service into one that sees taxpayers as valued clients and treating them as such, rather than behaving as an uncaring bureaucratic leviathan. These two linked but separate goals could be achieved by two task forces workingContinue reading “Making the UK tax system more user-friendly.”

We have a traffic problem and a pollution problem as well as a financial problem. There are a lot of huge 4×4 vehicles in cities. They are very wide and very long thus contributing to slowing traffic and creating jams. They guzzle petrol or diesel thus polluting hugely. They are mainly driven by young mothersContinue reading “Killing 2 birds (or maybe 3) with one stone”

Using local Facebook and WhatsApp groups each elderly /vulnerable person living alone with no support could be paired with a family or another person in their community who would take responsibility for their shopping together with a daily telephone catch up (could the phone companies fund this?). Or maybe for those with mobile phones anContinue reading “How to care for an ageing population in lockdown and going forward”

The British consumer is driven by heavy advertising promotions, false ideas about the health benefits of water in bottles, convenience and most importantly price. There is no need to buy bottles of water in the UK because we have some of the cleanest tap water in the world and the water industry is anwerable toContinue reading “Reduce demand, Consume less, Tax more.”

The massive deposits required and high monthly rents are inhibiting the mobility of the workforce. This inhibits opportunities for the individual, and reduces the gross national product. Within the major cities essential workers cannot find suitable accommodation and traveling costs/time causes a shortage of key personnel . The solution is to give cities the powerContinue reading “Lack of mobility of labour in the UK workforce”

Good education is key in bringing people out of poverty. Literacy is the foundation stone to access to a good education. There is a company called Touch Type Read Spell (TTRS) that created software for teaching students to spell and touch type at the same time. It uses the Alpha to Omega phonics system usedContinue reading “Education”

On the surface, the shift of millions of British workers from commuting to offices daily to working from home is perhaps one of the least interesting of the transformations the country has endured through the Coronavirus pandemic – but surface impressions can often be misleading. The enforced nature of home working during the pandemic hasContinue reading “Embracing home working could deliver surprisingly big social wins”

There are illegal drug users in the UK and there always will be. There are illegal drug suppliers in the UK and always will be. I am sure lots of police time and lots of money is devoted to removing the drug supply and drug suppliers from the streets of the UK but as 1Continue reading “Legalise Drugs”