Category Archives: Solutions

Summary: Young people want to push forward the fight against climate change, but are struggling to achieve change. The government should help them achieve change and learn about the practical difficulties of doing so by creating a competition for universities to achieve net-zero status, with students at the fastest universities rewarded with debt-forgiveness. Policy: ClimateContinue reading “Converting Student Activism into Student Action”

We have been discussing the social care problem for decades. Understandably, the focus has been on how to pay for it but that misses an essential point, how to make social care better, how to make it a service that people want to pay for. The provision of social services has remained largely untouched byContinue reading “Using direct payments to transform the quality of social care”

The move from High Streets to online retailing has been accelerated by the pandemic. High Streets need to be repurposed, but retail shops will remain integral to town centres, and a greater variety of shops would help to regenerate interest and activity. High Street shops face disadvantages compared with online retailers – high business ratesContinue reading “Levelling the retail playing field to rejuvenate town centres”

In normal times government expenditure takes up 40% – 50% of Gross National Product. Government has been allowed over the years to become over-complicated and ineffective. This paper discusses three separate proposals, linked only by how they are implemented, to simplify and make more purposeful, major parts of the government administration. INCREASED AND SECURITY WELL-BEINGContinue reading “Rethinking government: massive improvements in effectiveness, cost reduction and well-being.”

Currently Maths GCSE, as I understand it, does not include basic finance (e.g mortgages, credit cards, loans etc), however it does include subjects that most people are unlikely to need (e.g quadratic equations). My proposal is that we split Maths into two subjects so we have 1) “basic” maths which would be mandatory and includesContinue reading “Introduce finance into mainstream education”

The proposed Community Areas of Landscape Value (CALV) will be part of a national network – a grid – of green spaces that are accessible to us all wherever we live. People will not have to travel to find green spaces, the green spaces are already amongst us where we live. CALV will be areasContinue reading “Help people, help nature – fairly”

Pass a simple law – “IT IS AN OFFENCE BOTH CIVIL AND CRIMINAL TO MISLEAD” . Nothing needs to be said to explain this proposal which is likely to affect the public statements of internet users, news media, politicians and advertisers. But much needs to be said to address many common objections, misconceptions or doubts.Continue reading “Putting an end to fake news and misinformation”

The UK has been heavily targeted by hostile state actors (HSAs) in cyberspace throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Initiatives need to be introduced which further strengthen the UK’s ability to defend itself. These include introducing a quantitative, public “Cyber Hygiene” rating scheme for UK organisations, as well as additional obligations for British cloud service providers (CSPs)Continue reading “Initiatives to improve the UK’s cyber security during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.”

There has been an increasing relation during the pandemic of the value of local bricks and mortar businesses, with research from Deloitte Digital showing that 59% of consumers in Britain have used more local stores and services to help support them during lockdown, and 46% of consumers say they are more likely to spend moneyContinue reading “Levelling the retail playing field by replacing Business Rates with additional standard rate VAT”

Summary Requirement for a Civil Service Reserve. Although the Covid 19 pandemic put immense pressure on the NHS, it has also put great strain on the wider Civil Service which has had to react to new challenges, spilling over from Covid, while keeping the country running with all its normal needs. The Civil service needsContinue reading “Requirement for a Reserve of former officials to support the Civil Service in a crisis.”