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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#FinancialRegulation
#UKPolitics
#Economics
#SystemicRisk

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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Free speech doesn’t disappear because someone wakes up one morning and decides to ban it.

It erodes because systems slowly stop rewarding tolerance, Lets look at how we can possibly protect what we have.

#Politics #FreeSpeech #ECHR #UkPolitics #HRA #FPTP #PR #Rethink

https://hysnapsmusicandmentalhealth.wordpress.com/2026/01/14/lets-rethink-free-speech-why-electoral-systems-impact-on-it/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

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 Health

You 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.

#Rethink #UKPolitics #Education

https://hysnapsmusicandmentalhealth.wordpress.com/2025/12/23/lets-rethink-education-part-3-bodies-buildings-and-property/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

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…

Hysnaps Politics, Gaming, Music and Mental Health

“Spend £100bn more on schools and GDP will explode!” or “Raise taxes and everything dies!”
Both are wrong. Lets dig into the boring-but-crucial bit: what really happens to the economy if we do this.

#Rethink #UKPolitics #Education

https://hysnapsmusicandmentalhealth.wordpress.com/2025/12/22/lets-rethink-education-part-2-what-happens-when-you-spend-5-more-on-education/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

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 Health

The 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.
#Politics #Rethink #UKPolitics #FPTP

https://hysnapsmusicandmentalhealth.wordpress.com/2025/12/17/why-boring-politics-might-save-us-all/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

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

#progress #reflection #history #change #rethink

» Müll auf dem Mount Everest «

Der Mount Everest ist mit fast 9.000m der höchste Berg der Welt. Und doch gibt es unglaublich viele dumme Menschen, die für viel Geld einem Hype folgen, ihr eigenes Leben & das Leben anderer risk

https://www.rethink-recycle.net/muell-auf-dem-mount-everest/

#massentourismus #MllAufsammeln #Nepal #ReinholdMessner #reisen #SocialMedia #tourismus #umweltverschmutzung #ungewhnlich
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» Advent, Advent «

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 (nac

https://www.rethink-recycle.net/advent-advent/

#advent #beleuchtung #bilderrahmen #deko #kerze #ungewhnlich #weihnachten #wiederverwenden #winter #zweckentfremden
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Advent, Advent » ReThink - Recycle!

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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