#letsrethink — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #letsrethink, aggregated by home.social.
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Let's Rethink The Lords: Unbundling The Lords
No verdict.
No silver bullet.
Just clearer choices than we had before.
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Let's Rethink The Lords: The Impossible Trade-off
If we designed the Lords now, what would it reasonably be?
Not tradition. Not slogans. Just options and trade-offs.
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This isn’t uncharted territory.
Other countries split these roles deliberately — we just… didn’t.
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Let's Rethink The Lords: Ethical Scrutiny
Not a moral authority.
Not a veto.
Just a place where ethical trade-offs are examined on purpose.
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Overriding the Lords doesn’t make disagreement disappear.
It records it — loudly.
Sometimes that matters more than winning the vote.
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“Can’t the Commons just ignore the Lords?”
Sort of. But not quietly — and not without consequences.
Here’s how override actually works.
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Let’s Rethink Parliament: The One Term Manifesto
If we only had one term — no guarantees, no encore — what would we change so it stuck?
That’s a more honest question than it sounds.
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Let’s Rethink Parliament: So… What Kind of Change Is Actually Possible?
Not everything fits into five years.
Being honest about what can’t be finished in one term isn’t weakness — it’s credibility.
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The Commons chamber makes its point before anyone opens their mouth.
Government here. Opposition there.
Let’s Rethink Parliament: When Buildings Shape Behaviour
You don’t need rules — the room already tells you how to behave. -
Some MPs are instantly recognisable.
Others are harder to place — even if they’re working just as hard.This post isn’t about blame.
It’s about how Parliament signals what matters.Let’s Rethink Parliament — Post 4 👇
#LetsRethink #UKParliament #Politics #SystemsThinking #Democracy
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New series starting today: Let’s Rethink Parliament
Not about tearing it down.
Not about blaming MPs.About noticing how habits, incentives, and time quietly shape behaviour — and outcomes.
First post 👇
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We’ve mentioned incentives a few times now.
This is usually the point where people brace themselves, because they assume this is about greed, bonuses, or “bad behaviour”.It isn’t really.
It’s about something much more awkward
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Did the War on Drugs work the way we hoped?
A calm, evidence-led look at fifty years of UK policy, persistent behaviour, and the costs of trying to legislate reality away.
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We spend ~£20bn a year dealing with the consequences of illegal drugs in England & Wales — while ~ £10bn flows to criminal markets.
What happens if we stop pretending the market will disappear?
🧵 Filthy Lucre
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We spend roughly £20bn a year dealing with the consequences of illegal drugs in England & Wales — while the market itself is worth around £10bn.
This isn’t a moral argument. It’s an accounting one.
🧵 The Filthy Lucre
#UKPolitics #LetsRethink #PolicyMaking #EvidenceNotPanic #SystemsThink
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@BBCNews any comment?
Really pleased to see the petition for by elections when an mp changes party has got over 100k signatures, and looking at the map they have come from all over the UK. I am now looking forward to the debate in parliament and which parties try to whip against the proposal and what arguments are used.
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When legal routes close, movement doesn’t stop — it adapts.
This post looks at how restrictive migration policy creates shadow systems, empowers traffickers, and increases exploitation instead of reducing it.
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When sex work is criminalised, it doesn’t disappear — it moves.
This post looks at how punishment increases vulnerability, shifts harm out of sight, and quietly raises costs elsewhere when policy focuses on morality rather than safety.
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When punishment doesn’t reduce behaviour, the usual response is… more punishment.
This post explores why that cycle forms, who pays the price, and why asking “what actually happens when we try?” matters.
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People don’t behave like policy models assume they will.
When visibility gets mistaken for growth, concern turns into panic — and costs follow. This is about why virtue governs better with evidence, and why asking “what happens next?” matters. -
We’ve been thinking a lot about policy-making lately.
Not party politics — but the quieter bit underneath it.How decision-makers decide what to make laws about.
How they decide how to shape them.
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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.
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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
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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. -
“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?
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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.
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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.
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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.