#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.
#LetsRethink #Democracy #UKGovernance -
Let's Rethink The Lords: Unbundling The Lords
No verdict.
No silver bullet.
Just clearer choices than we had before.
#LetsRethink #Democracy #UKGovernance -
Let's Rethink The Lords: Unbundling The Lords
No verdict.
No silver bullet.
Just clearer choices than we had before.
#LetsRethink #Democracy #UKGovernance -
Let's Rethink The Lords: Unbundling The Lords
No verdict.
No silver bullet.
Just clearer choices than we had before.
#LetsRethink #Democracy #UKGovernance -
Let's Rethink The Lords: Unbundling The Lords
No verdict.
No silver bullet.
Just clearer choices than we had before.
#LetsRethink #Democracy #UKGovernance -
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.
#LetsRethink #HouseOfLordsReform #UKPolitics -
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.
#LetsRethink #HouseOfLordsReform #UKPolitics -
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.
#LetsRethink #HouseOfLordsReform #UKPolitics -
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.
#LetsRethink #HouseOfLordsReform #UKPolitics -
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.
#LetsRethink #HouseOfLordsReform #UKPolitics -
Let's Rethink The Lords: The Experts Bench
Not technocracy.
Not control.
Just people who remember how things actually work.
#LetsRethink #PublicInstitutions #PolicyDesign -
Let's Rethink The Lords: The Experts Bench
Not technocracy.
Not control.
Just people who remember how things actually work.
#LetsRethink #PublicInstitutions #PolicyDesign -
Let's Rethink The Lords: Parliament's Memory Bank
Long systems.
Short politics.
Somewhere along the way, the Lords absorbed the gap.
#LetsRethink #InstitutionalMemory #UKPolitics -
Let's Rethink The Lords: Parliament's Memory Bank
Long systems.
Short politics.
Somewhere along the way, the Lords absorbed the gap.
#LetsRethink #InstitutionalMemory #UKPolitics -
Ethics isn’t the only thing the Lords has absorbed by default.
Expertise and memory went there too — quietly.
That matters.
#LetsRethink #HouseOfLords #Governance -
Ethics isn’t the only thing the Lords has absorbed by default.
Expertise and memory went there too — quietly.
That matters.
#LetsRethink #HouseOfLords #Governance -
This isn’t uncharted territory.
Other countries split these roles deliberately — we just… didn’t.
#LetsRethink #ComparativePolitics #Democracy -
This isn’t uncharted territory.
Other countries split these roles deliberately — we just… didn’t.
#LetsRethink #ComparativePolitics #Democracy -
This isn’t uncharted territory.
Other countries split these roles deliberately — we just… didn’t.
#LetsRethink #ComparativePolitics #Democracy -
This isn’t uncharted territory.
Other countries split these roles deliberately — we just… didn’t.
#LetsRethink #ComparativePolitics #Democracy -
This isn’t uncharted territory.
Other countries split these roles deliberately — we just… didn’t.
#LetsRethink #ComparativePolitics #Democracy -
Good ideas don’t fail because they’re evil.
They fail because no one asked how they break.
Let’s do that part properly.
#LetsRethink #PolicyDesign #UKPolitics -
Good ideas don’t fail because they’re evil.
They fail because no one asked how they break.
Let’s do that part properly.
#LetsRethink #PolicyDesign #UKPolitics -
If the Lords stopped carrying everything, it might finally make sense again.
Here’s what separating roles could change.
#LetsRethink #HouseOfLords #Reform -
If the Lords stopped carrying everything, it might finally make sense again.
Here’s what separating roles could change.
#LetsRethink #HouseOfLords #Reform -
If an ethics body existed, it shouldn’t be loud or powerful.
It should be boring, steady — and impossible to ignore later.
#LetsRethink #InstitutionalDesign #UKPolitics -
If an ethics body existed, it shouldn’t be loud or powerful.
It should be boring, steady — and impossible to ignore later.
#LetsRethink #InstitutionalDesign #UKPolitics -
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.
#LetsRethink #Ethics #Democracy -
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.
#LetsRethink #Ethics #Democracy -
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.
#LetsRethink #Ethics #Democracy -
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.
#LetsRethink #Ethics #Democracy -
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.
#LetsRethink #Ethics #Democracy -
Ethics in politics usually appears late, loud, and messy.
What if it had a clearer, calmer place to live?
#LetsRethink #EthicsInPolitics #UKPolitics -
Ethics in politics usually appears late, loud, and messy.
What if it had a clearer, calmer place to live?
#LetsRethink #EthicsInPolitics #UKPolitics -
The Lords wasn’t designed to be the nation’s ethical conscience.
So why does it keep acting like one?
This is where the strain starts to show.
#LetsRethink #PoliticsAndEthics #HouseOfLords -
The Lords wasn’t designed to be the nation’s ethical conscience.
So why does it keep acting like one?
This is where the strain starts to show.
#LetsRethink #PoliticsAndEthics #HouseOfLords -
Overriding the Lords doesn’t make disagreement disappear.
It records it — loudly.
Sometimes that matters more than winning the vote.
#LetsRethink #Parliament #Democracy -
Overriding the Lords doesn’t make disagreement disappear.
It records it — loudly.
Sometimes that matters more than winning the vote.
#LetsRethink #Parliament #Democracy -
Overriding the Lords doesn’t make disagreement disappear.
It records it — loudly.
Sometimes that matters more than winning the vote.
#LetsRethink #Parliament #Democracy -
Overriding the Lords doesn’t make disagreement disappear.
It records it — loudly.
Sometimes that matters more than winning the vote.
#LetsRethink #Parliament #Democracy -
Overriding the Lords doesn’t make disagreement disappear.
It records it — loudly.
Sometimes that matters more than winning the vote.
#LetsRethink #Parliament #Democracy -
Bishops and judges in Parliament feels odd.
But they weren’t added randomly — they were filling a gap no one else had named.
#LetsRethink #UKPolitics #HouseOfLords -
Bishops and judges in Parliament feels odd.
But they weren’t added randomly — they were filling a gap no one else had named.
#LetsRethink #UKPolitics #HouseOfLords -
The Lords didn’t lose power by accident.
It was deliberately redesigned to review, not rule.
That decision still echoes through Parliament.
#LetsRethink #UKPolitics #HouseOfLords -
The Lords didn’t lose power by accident.
It was deliberately redesigned to review, not rule.
That decision still echoes through Parliament.
#LetsRethink #UKPolitics #HouseOfLords -
“Can’t the Commons just ignore the Lords?”
Sort of. But not quietly — and not without consequences.
Here’s how override actually works.
#LetsRethink #Parliament #UKLaw -
“Can’t the Commons just ignore the Lords?”
Sort of. But not quietly — and not without consequences.
Here’s how override actually works.
#LetsRethink #Parliament #UKLaw -
“Can’t the Commons just ignore the Lords?”
Sort of. But not quietly — and not without consequences.
Here’s how override actually works.
#LetsRethink #Parliament #UKLaw -
“Can’t the Commons just ignore the Lords?”
Sort of. But not quietly — and not without consequences.
Here’s how override actually works.
#LetsRethink #Parliament #UKLaw -
“Can’t the Commons just ignore the Lords?”
Sort of. But not quietly — and not without consequences.
Here’s how override actually works.
#LetsRethink #Parliament #UKLaw