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Author Archives: wonkypolicywonk
Why the Labour Party lost everywhere last week
Since late 2024, my wife Joanna and I have received a combined total of five speeding tickets from the Metropolitan Police. And, in each case, the strategically-placed automatic camera had caught us driving at … 24 mph. Most recently, the … Continue reading
Posted in Democracy, politics
Tagged 20 mph speed limit, Keir Starmer, Sadiq Khan, wales, wokeism
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Workers deserve better than ‘hope’
So, having publicly defended the right of murderous armed nutjobs to be arrested ever so gently by police officers, former boob-enlarging hypnotist David Paulden (aka Zack Polanski) and his Watermelon Party have now gone big on the rights of workers. … Continue reading
Posted in politics, Workers' rights
Tagged Green Party, Minimum Wage, Workers' rights
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Everything you always wanted to know about the Good Law Project (but were afraid to ask)
What has the Good Law Project (GLP) ever done for us? How much has that cost us? Why should we care? Shouldn’t we just ignore them? Well, yes, we could just ignore them, not least because they would hate that. … Continue reading
A single enforcement body for workers’ rights: OK, it’s taken 25 ****ing years, but … we’re finally there!
Between 2000 and 2013, while working as employment policy officer at Citizens Advice, I researched and wrote a series of deadly boring policy reports arguing for a consolidation of the three main labour market enforcement bodies – the HMRC minimum wage enforcement … Continue reading
Road to nowhere
(With apologies to Talking Heads) With the first anniversary of the Supreme Court’s momentous ruling of 16 April 2025 in For Women Scotland – on the meaning of the word ‘sex’ in the Equality Act 2010 – approaching fast, now … Continue reading
Posted in Crowdfunding, Sex & Gender
Tagged EHRC, For Women Scotland, Good Law Project, Supreme Court, Trans Legal Clinic, Translucent
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Wealth of nations, poverty of policy
Zack Polanski, the former boob-enlarging hypnotist and Liberal Democrat who now leads the Green Party, says that yesterday’s Gorton & Denton by-election result proves the Labour Party is a busted flush, and that voting Green is now the only way … Continue reading
Chartsengrafs
(With apologies to Grandaddy) Charts come. And then they go. Which is sad. Indeed, I am told that the sudden disappearance from this blog of some of my charts has desolated as many as four nerdy people. So, as free … Continue reading
Refuge of a scoundrel
In mid-November last year, it was reported by one of those present that Jolyon Maugham KC, the founder and executive director of the Good Law Project, had implied to a recent meeting of Cambridge University students that he is gay. … Continue reading
Labour Pains 