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About wonkypolicywonk

Wonkypolicywonk is a recovering policy minion, assigned wonky at birth.

Walking dead: Keir Starmer, Lauren Edwards and the new but identically flawed NHS-assisted suicide PMB

Posted on June 15, 2026 by wonkypolicywonk

So, Labour MP Lauren Edwards – who, as noted on this blog last month, came second in the recent Private Members’ Bill (PMB) ballot – has opted to re-introduce Kim Leadbeater’s deeply flawed and defeated NHS-assisted suicide Bill in the … Continue reading →

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Bonkers in Brighton

Posted on June 12, 2026 by wonkypolicywonk

As if crowdfunding and blowing almost £720,000 on trying and – so far – failing to undo the Supreme Court’s April 2025 ruling in the case of For Women Scotland isn’t bonkers enough – because, if the Supreme Court says … Continue reading →

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Better off dead: the NHS-assisted suicide PMB

Posted on May 22, 2026 by wonkypolicywonk

As noted on this blog in April, supporters of NHS-assisted suicide reacted to the long, slow death of Kim Leadbeater’s inadequately scrutinised Private Members’ Bill (PMB) in the House of Lords by revealing a somewhat undemocratic plan to “table an … Continue reading →

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Road to Nowhere: traffic update

Posted on May 21, 2026 by wonkypolicywonk

So, with Bridget ‘moral midget’ Phillipson, allegedly the Minister for Women & Equalities, having finally laid before Parliament the revised EHRC code of practice for services, public functions and associations that the EHRC submitted to her almost nine months ago, … Continue reading →

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Why the Labour Party lost everywhere last week

Posted on May 11, 2026 by wonkypolicywonk

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 →

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Workers deserve better than ‘hope’

Posted on May 4, 2026 by wonkypolicywonk

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 →

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The Assisted Suicide Bill is dead, long live the Assisted Suicide Bill!

Posted on April 25, 2026 by wonkypolicywonk

So, having run out of time in the House of Lords, Kim Leadbeater’s well-intentioned but deeply flawed Assisted Suicide Bill is finally dead. Apparently, Leadbeater regards the attempt by the House of Lords to address the Bill’s flaws as “undemocratic”. … Continue reading →

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Everything you always wanted to know about the Good Law Project (but were afraid to ask)

Posted on April 10, 2026 by wonkypolicywonk

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 →

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A single enforcement body for workers’ rights: OK, it’s taken 25 ****ing years, but … we’re finally there!

Posted on April 6, 2026 by wonkypolicywonk

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 →

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Road to nowhere

Posted on March 10, 2026 by wonkypolicywonk

(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 →

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