We’re often told financial crises are unforeseeable.
They aren’t.
The UK has a long pattern: crisis → reform → forgetting.
Short-term gains feel good. Long-term risk quietly builds.
Part 2 of Rethink Financial Markets looks at who benefited, who paid, and why the same arguments keep coming back.
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https://hysnapsmusicandmentalhealth.wordpress.com/2026/01/30/lets-rethink-financial-services-why-regulation-matters/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Lets Rethink Financial Services: Why Regulation Matters
If financial markets aren’t as complex as we’re told, why do they keep failing? A UK-focused look at regulation, short-term gains, long-term costs, and why we keep relearning the same lesson.
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Lets Rethink Free Speech: Why Electoral Systems Impact on it?
By this point in the series, one thing should be fairly clear. Free speech doesn’t disappear because someone wakes up one morning and decides to ban it. It erodes because systems slowly stop reward…
Hysnaps Politics, Gaming, Music and Mental HealthYou can’t have smaller classes without more humans and more rooms. Time for the practical bit: teachers, TAs, mothballed schools, vacant offices – and how we actually make space for better education.
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Lets Rethink Education: Bodies, Buildings and Property.
Capacity Expansion: Teachers, Buildings, and the School Estate (In Your Voice) Let’s get practical. Money is one thing — but money doesn’t teach children. People do. And buildings do. If we want sm…
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Lets Rethink Education: What Happens when you spend 5% more on Education?
Now that we’ve mapped the raw cost of funding state education at private-school levels, it’s time to answer the inevitable question: What does this do to the economy? Do we spark a boom? Cause a re…
Hysnaps Politics, Gaming, Music and Mental HealthThe UK’s political system isn’t broken.
It’s working exactly as intended, just not for the benefit of you or me.
My radical request — is for BORING POLITICS … In this post I outline why what the UK really needs is not show and outrage but dull predictability.
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Why Boring Politics Might Save Us All
After over 27 days of digging through inequality, privatisation, democratic distortions, collapsing social care, slashed education budgets, chronic underinvestment, donor capture, and the small mat…
Hysnaps Politics, Gaming, Music and Mental Health"Not all progress looks forward. Sometimes it looks back, and chooses differently." L. Nault
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» Müll auf dem Mount Everest «
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» Advent, Advent «
1 Lichtlein brennt. :)
Hier eine sehr minimalistische Version eines Adventskranzes...
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1 Lichtlein brennt. 🙂 Hier eine sehr minimalistische Version eines Adventskranzes… Ganz praktisch: Nutzt sich nicht großartig ab, jedes Jahr wiederverwendbar, EyeCatcher, Text nach belieben anpassbar und verbraucht (nach Produktion) keine Energie. Zudem hatte ich dieses Teil vor ein paar Jahren mal für 1€ gebraucht gekauft. Habt einen schönen ersten Advent! ✨
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