My policy ideas so far

A list of all 65 of my articles from 2023 and 2024

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Constitution

1. How to appoint a Cabinet (Sep 01, 2023)

2. Children should get the vote, exercised by their mothers (Jul 01, 2024)

3. Allow people to vote against candidates, as well as for them (Jun 17, 2024)

4. Don’t change constituency boundaries, vary an MP’s vote in the Commons according to their electorate (May 28, 2024)

5. How to keep the Northern Ireland Assembly going (Feb 05, 2024)

6. Scotland should have an independence referendum every generation, no more, no less (Oct 16, 2023)

Culture

7. How to reform the BBC licence fee (Dec 18, 2023)

Defence and foreign affairs

8. Stop aiding Putin’s friends: change the flight path rules (Dec 02, 2024)

9. Tightening aviation sanctions on Russia (Nov 18, 2024)

10. Nato: All aboard (22 July 2024)

11. All Nato members should spend 2%, no exceptions (Feb 19, 2024)

Economics and taxation

12. Why I am worried about the minimum wage (Oct 21, 2024)

13. Abolish copper coins (Sep 09, 2024)

14. Stamp duty and council tax (Aug 27, 2024)

15. Transferable tax allowances (Jul 08, 2024)

16. Get people with disabilities into work - have the state employ them (Apr 22, 2024)

17. What to do if Thames Water goes bust (allow it) (Apr 01, 2024)

18. Iceland should not try to grow food (and we should not have a domestic food production target either) (Mar 25, 2024)

19. Property rights are important, but not the be all and end all of life (Feb 23, 2024)

20. Employer National Insurance should be risk based (Sep 11, 2023)

21. Improve the quality of government stats with web scraping (Nov 06, 2023)

22. Longer guarantees for electrical goods (Jan 15, 2024)

Education

23. University fees and funding (Oct 07, 2024)

24. Cut creative arts degrees (Apr 08, 2024)

Energy, environment and farming

25. Further reflections on how to preserve the family farm (Dec 16, 2024)

26. How to preserve the family farm (Nov 04, 2024)

27. Everyone should get some free energy in winter - with higher charges in summer in lieu (Mar 04, 2024)

28. Electric cars with “Vehicle to Grid” should be prioritised (Jan 29, 2024)

29. Ban peat now (Jan 09, 2024)

Finance

30. Fiscal rules should be qualitative (Mar 11, 2024)

31. How to strengthen the OBR (Nov 27, 2023)

32. Be open about credit criteria (Jun 03, 2024)

Health

33. Skipping GPs for some conditions make sense (Nov 25, 2024)

34. The case for standby hospital appointments (Nov 11, 2024)

35. How to tax cigarettes (Aug 12, 2024)

36. Make it easier for people to get the doctors slot that works for them (May 13, 2024)

37. How to ban smoking (Oct 09, 2023)

38. More dental therapists, fewer dentists, please (May 06, 2024)

39. Free prescriptions should not exist for everyone aged 60-67 (Jan 22, 2024)

Housing & Communities

40. What to do about towns in England (Dec 23, 2024)

41. Planners need to consult a representative group of local people (Oct 14, 2024)

42. Housing locations matter (Aug 03, 2024)

43. The grey belt concept (Jul 19, 2024)

44. We should allow smaller flats (Feb 12, 2024)

45. Allow more terraced houses in London (Apr 29, 2024)

46. Protect crested newts as a species, not individual newts (Jun 24, 2024)

Justice

47. Improving early release (Oct 28, 2024)

48. Larger corporate penalties for wrong doers (Sep 30, 2024)

49. Losing you pension (Sep 23, 2024)

50. Magistrates Courts (Jul 19, 2024)

Pensions

51. What to do about private pension tax breaks

52. The triple lock can be reformed, but is the right policy for now (Oct 30, 2023)

53. How to revitalise defined benefit pension schemes (Apr 16, 2024)

Transport

54. Make EVs work for younger drivers (Sep 16, 2024)

55. How to improve driving test availability (Sep 02, 2024)

56. The case for negative road pricing (Jul 29, 2024)

57. Raise speed limits on the motorway, cut them in town (Jun 10, 2024)

58. Smart motorways cut deaths, we should have more of them (May 20, 2024)

59. It should be easier to turn left at roundabouts (Mar 18, 2024)

60. Car number plates should be liberalised to raise money (Sep 04, 2023)

61. How to fill trains, and reduce the subsidy needed (Oct 23, 2023)

62. Electric cars - start banning expensive petrol cars now (Nov 13, 2023)

63. Traffic lights should have a “give way” as well as stop and go signal (Dec 04, 2023)

Welfare

64. Why abolishing the 2 child rule is an investment (Dec 09, 2023)

Other

65. Abolish bank holidays, and give people more holiday in lieu (May 07, 2024)