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Become a Member of the Open University Debate Society

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Fill in the form below to become a Member of the Open University Debate Club and Society. Becoming a Member entitles you to participate in The OU Debate Club Society elections.

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2026 Stanford Nobel Prize Press Conference: Karl Deisseroth

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Stanford leadership and colleagues discuss the groundbreaking impact of Professor Deisseroth on neuroscience.

This press conference highlights how this innovative technology, which uses light to control nerve cell activity, continues to transform medical research, particularly in psychiatry. This is a step forward in understanding neurological activity in relation to light as an activator and/or inhibitor.

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2026 Stanford Nobel Prize Press Conference: Karl Deisseroth - YouTube

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E-petition debate relating to a referendum on public ownership of water - Monday 14 September 2026

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Edited by Frederique Lanoix, Thursday 8 October 2026 at 10:02

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UK Parliament

UK Parliament

Debate overview:

Some of the arguments debated included the following: 

- Privatisation is a disgrace

- A different form of ownership is needed

- The current private system has increased issues of polluted water dumped in rivers 

- Issues with pollution impacting public health (various cases of constituents were provided)

- Stakeholders such as users pay the price of constant price increases with little value for money

- The industry has lost control of many aspects of the daily requirements for effective water management

- UK reservoirs cannot sustain the current pace of daily loss

- Climate change is not addressed by the industry

- The UK is the only country in the world that has fully privatised water management

- No switching opportunity for service users

- Nationalisation should be operated without a referendum 

- Too much talk, not enough action from the government

- Fines and financial sanctions do not work: the industry is still struggling to provide basic services

And more...  

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E-petition debate relating to a referendum on public ownership of water - Monday 14 September 2026 - YouTube

Parliamentlive.tv - Westminster Hall

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Nature as a healer

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Edited by Frederique Lanoix, Wednesday 7 October 2026 at 07:00

Nature as a healer!As you may have noticed, my passion for nature has inspired many of my blog posts. Thanks to the Sisterhood Support group, I can write about it freely. Please have a look at my new post on the benefits of accessing nature in relation to mental health, available here:

Nature as a healer | Sisterhood Support

Frederique 

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Motion: The House believes that Barbie as a brand is a net positive to feminism. - Debate 5th Oct 2026

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For us to better understand the relationship between Barbie as a brand and the various meanings of feminism, it is worth defining feminism, which is the belief in social, economic, and political equality of the sexes for the white mainstream side of the movement(Britannica, 2026). 

Meanwhile, Black feminism varies in that it explores how the intersectionality of racism, classism, and sexism impacts Black women's lives(Britannica, 2026).

Now that this is established, I must say that the preparation of this speech required me to watch a bunch of videos and read quite a bit of literature about Barbie. Also, I had some of those dolls, which were not my favourite toys to play with. Anyway!

My first argument will cover Barbie as a symbol of girls’ social advancement, then I will show how feminism in the business context makes Barbie a net positive for feminism.

As you may know, Barbie was introduced to the American public in 1959. She was 29 cm tall with a slim figure. She was blonde and her founders were Ruth Handler and her husband, Elliot(Britannica, 2026).

From her birth, the Barbie brand represents women’s ability and capability to be independent and financially innovative. As her name comes from the founders’ daughter, it can be suggested that they both saw that their daughter and girls of that time needed a symbol that could convey that it was ok to strive for more. I need to make a pause and describe more for you here, as it is embedded in the feminism aspect of the debate. For example, Barbie can be more than a housewife(Britannica, 2026). She was a blonde, yes … but with a brain. She could be a teacher, an astronaut, a vet, and so on. This means that the marketing and business innovation behind the doll carried a strong message. It morphed the image of the white Western female aspect of womanhood.

Given that Barbie asked all girls to self-reflect about who they are in society. She also put their mothers in the spotlight by outlining what was wrong with gender roles. She influenced girls to think for themselves and to achieve what the previous generation could not do or did not dare to do. This is why Barbie is a net positive to feminism.

Another way to assess the claim that Barbie as a brand is a net positive to feminism is by outlining how Mattel has influenced the minds of women and girls through the business model itself. Indeed, the Barbie doll business model goes beyond the mere aspect of individual feminism. For example, according to Mattel, the aim of the brand is to empower generations to explore the wonder of childhood and reach their full potential(Mattel, 2026). This is achieved by working on a few elements of their vision, such as product quality and safety, where they preserve the contemporary artworks and design of the doll through science. To be precise, it means that their innovative approach to research and development allows the reduction of the flexibility of the material to make the doll more sustainable(Macchia et al., 2024 p. 1). Mattel also adopts a Circular economy principle (PPWR)(Mattel, 2026). This is a fancy way of saying that they embrace the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) as a central legal framework dedicated to reducing environmental degradation and recycling(European Commission,2026).

It means that Barbie is stepping away from the simple idea that feminism helps to shape future generations. She cares about environmental protection and innovation, too. It is important because it signals that Barbie is not just a feminist. Just like in the recent movie dedicated to her reckoning as a woman, she evolves and adapts through clear planning that combines elements of feminism and the reshaping of society to serve the well-being of all. Thus why, Barbie as a brand is a net positive to feminism.


Reference
 

·       Britannica (2026) Barbie doll. Available at: Barbie | History, Dolls, & Facts | Britannica(Accessed 03 October 2026)

·       Britannica (2026) feminism. Availlable at: Feminism | Definition, History, Types, Waves, Examples, & Facts | Britannica(Accessed 03 October 2026)

·       Britannica (2026) Black feminism. Availlable at: Black feminism | Definition, History, Intersectionality, & Facts | Britannica(Accessed 03 October 2026)

·       European Commission(2026) Packaging waste - Background. Available at: Packaging waste - Environment - European Commission(Accessed 03 October 2026)

·       Macchia, A. et al. (2024) “Mattel’s ©Barbie: Preventing Plasticizers Leakage in PVC Artworks and Design Objects through Film-Forming Solutions,” Polymers, 16(13), p. 1888. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3390/polym16131888.

·       Mattel (2026) Our Purpose. Available at: Mattel, Inc. | Corporate Website Home(Accessed 03 October 2026)

·       Regan, T. and Bloomberg News (2013) Has Barbie lost her luster? New York: Bloomberg.

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October Saturn alignment and more

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Edited by Frederique Lanoix, Wednesday 7 October 2026 at 07:01

Image from the internet.Skywatching Highlights from NASA 

  • 4th October: Saturn will be aligned with Earth and the Sun. The ringed planet will be visible most of the night.
  • 6th October: A thin crescent Moon will be visibly close to Jupiter before sunrise
  • 21st and 22nd: The Orionid meteor shower peaks; moonlight may interfere with the skywatching; it is advised to look before dawn after moonset
  • 27th and 28th: The Moon will pass near the Pleiades star cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters

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NASA Official for Science (2026)What’s Up: October 2026 Skywatching Tips from NASA. Available at: What's Up: October 2026 Skywatching Tips from NASA - NASA Science(Accessed 05 October 2026)

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Nature

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Attachment and domestic violence

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A message of hope is sometimes what we need!

I wrote for the Women's group last month. They are helping women who suffer from Domestic abuse access a safe space to heal, laugh, cry, or just be themself. 

Have a look at the post here:  Attachment and domestic violence | Sisterhood Support

Their website can be found here: Sisterhood Support

Frederique 

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Motion OU Debate Club - Taxpayers should not bear the burden of financing non-essential treatments within the NHS - Opposition

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Edited by Frederique Lanoix, Sunday 4 October 2026 at 11:13

15th April 2024 - Motion OU Debate Club - Taxpayers should not bear the burden of financing non-essential treatments within the NHS

Opposition 

The NHS has been treating the nation for 76 years and it aims to provide high-quality health care. However, the Tories have been working hard to destroy it and it is unsurprising to hear that there is yet another motion which aims to debate how to bring more austerity within the NHS. My argument will cover how Taxpayers should finance non-essential treatments because those treatments can make the difference on a preventive level.

Mister Chairman, Taxpayers must be aware of the dangers of not financing non-essential treatments because they count. Indeed. Mister Chairman, those treatments are non-invasive, require less health care planning, and are cheap and, most importantly, they are less risky compared to the necessary treatments. 

This means that by providing non-essential treatments, the NHS acts as a protective filter dedicated to teaching patients about the risks and the benefits of those treatments. For example, in June 2018, the NHS news published an article stressing the importance of encouraging people not to engage with risky treatments, adding that and I quote, “Patients would be spared more than 100,000 unnecessary procedures a year, freeing up an estimated £200 million that can be spent on more effective treatments.” The article also explains that in some cases, and I quote, ‘alternative treatments like physiotherapy, a minor injection or change of diet are likely to be effective’.

So, a patient with cancer, for example, can go through cancer treatments and benefit from a non-essential treatment as part of a holistic health care plan. Indeed, health care takes place in every action taken by patients at every stage of their lives. Hence, taxpayers benefit from having access to non-essential treatments.

Cutting non-essential treatments will exacerbate the lack of funding already experienced by hard-working doctors, nurses, and other health professionals. They will have to deal with emergencies which are preventable. The NHS is already in crisis because it has been underfunded for the past 14 years which created a vast array of issues that led us to today’s debate. Mister Chair, according to the organisation Health Funding, the NHS has been underfunded for so long under this Tory government that the money allocated to face the Covid-19 pandemic has not changed the fact that the national health system is crumbling.

In a short report broadcast on Channel 4 News on 11th April 2024, the challenges faced by patients on the NHS waiting list are described. Patients are not receiving the health care that they desperately need which makes the difference between life and death in some cases. A simple procedure such as a scan or a full check-up can detect health issues early, increase lifespan and reduce the risks of having to live with long-lasting handicaps, for example. Those non-essential treatments count in the overall wellbeing of individuals and they are cost-effective in that the taxpayers do not have to pay more down the line. 

What the taxpayers need to focus on now is how treatments are going to be improved rather than trying to force austerity onto them as a means to get the NHS fit into an obsolete ideology. This government has been unable to determine what non-essential treatments are anyway. So, it would be pointless to dig into an argument which has no reason for being other than to destroy the NHS further. 

So, when Ms Atkins, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care suggested that the government is “spending record amounts on the NHS” on the BBC on the 10th April 2024, she seems unbelievably disconnected from what the public needs. The government must consider the non-essential treatments as part of providing excellent and bespoke health care. Besides, there have already been attempts to cut costs within the NHS. In 2018, The Guardian said that the health service had hoped to save £200m a year by reducing risky or unnecessary procedures. It simply means that investing in people’s health is to give a holistic approach to patients by including non-essential treatments.

In conclusion, this government has not been able to fund the NHS in a way that keeps patients’ health at the forefront while ensuring spending is efficient.  For far too long, the taxpayers have been misled by this government, which uses austerity to defund the NHS. It is time to protect, improve, boost, appreciate and fund the NHS. Non-essential treatments have their benefits, and the patients need them.

 

Reference:

·       NHS England » NHS England action to stop patients undergoing ineffective and risky treatments

·       NHS England: life in 'no man's land' on the waiting list (youtube.com)

·       NHS wields the axe on 17 'unnecessary procedures' | NHS | The Guardian

·       Complementary and alternative medicine - NHS (www.nhs.uk)

·       National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) 

·       Alexander technique for Parkinson's disease

·      Health funding data analysis (bma.org.uk)

·       How the Tory party has systematically run down the NHS | Letters | The Guardian

·       Listen: Health secretary Victoria Atkins clashes with BBC’s Nick Robinson over NHS spending (msn.com)

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Motion OU Debate Club - Taxpayers should not bear the burden of financing non-essential treatments within the NHS - Proposition

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15th April 2024 - Motion OU Debate Club - Taxpayers should not bear the burden of financing non-essential treatments within the NHS

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The NHS has been treating the nation for 76 years. It aims to care for everyone indiscriminately. But today, the lack of funding makes it hard for doctors, nurses, and other health professionals to do their jobs in a cost-effective way. This is due to the high number of unnecessary treatments covered by the NHS. My argument today will cover how Taxpayers should not bear the burden of financing non-essential treatments within the NHS.

The point I want to make today, madame/ mister chair, is that the NHS is in crisis because it has been underfunded for the past 14 years, which has created a vast range of issues that led us to today’s debate. Indeed, madame/mister chair, the NHS needs to fully eliminate the financial burden of dealing with breast enlargement, rhinoplasty, puberty blockers, or hair implants, for example. Indeed, the stats regarding funding within the NHS are shocking. According to the organisation Health Funding, the NHS has been inefficiently funded for so long under the Tory governments that the money allocated to face the Covid-19 pandemic has not changed the fact that our health system is crumbling. According to The Guardian, the Tory party is trying to push people into health poverty by underfunding the NHS so that patients will run into the private sector. This means that taxpayers must suffer the consequences of a deeply rooted ideological government which fails to invest in people’s health. We need a better plan for the NHS. A long-term plan which works for the many, and this is why the taxpayers should not bear the burden of financing non-essential treatments within the NHS.

So, the treatments labelled non-essential, Madame Chair, are those that the patients are not required to take to treat a condition that could cost them their lives, leave them handicapped, or leave them with some sort of psychological dysfunction. What I am referring to are the treatments that a patient does not fundamentally need to live a healthy life. This raises the question of what is being healthy? For example, one does not need a breast enlargement or hair implants to live healthily. It is understandable that a person who wants to have bigger breasts or have hair implants may be suffering from other issues. However, those treatments are not necessary, urgent, or priceless for the taxpayers. The same goes for other treatments such as skin bleaching for people who have a non-threatening skin condition, for example. In 2018, The Guardian said that the health service had hoped to save £200m a year by reducing risky or unnecessary procedures.  If those procedures are not helping the patients to keep healthy, they should not be performed.

This is why, the NHS needs to refocus on what is important and today what is crucial is to lessen the burden of financing non-essential treatments for taxpayers. The NHS is here to help patients in receiving the health care that they need. Thus, guidance on what non-essential treatments are must be developed further first, just like the NHS does for complementary and alternative medicines. This is to determine if non-essential treatments should be accessed under certain conditions. It is a matter of allocating the right treatment, at the right time, to the right person so that spending is comprehensive in that they serve the purpose of helping the NHS to perform better.  So, when Ms Atkins, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, said that the government is “spending record amounts on the NHS” on the BBC on the 10th April 2024, it seems unbelievably disconnected from what the public needs regarding health care spending. If the government is serious about spending effectively in terms of health care, the non-essential treatments must be considered obsolete because this is where savings can be made in a sensible way. This is not a cut that will increase waiting list or sanction the health care professionals. On the contrary, this will help the NHS perform better, faster, and lessen the burden for taxpayers.

To conclude, the fact that this government has not been able to fund the NHS in a way that can keep patients’ health in the forefront whilst making sure that spending is efficiently provided has created the fertile ground to find innovative solutions to reduce the burden of non-essential treatments. For far too long, taxpayers have been funding those treatments. It is time to get rid of those unnecessary costs within the NHS.  

Reference:

·       NHS England » NHS England action to stop patients undergoing ineffective and risky treatments

·       NHS England: life in 'no man's land' on the waiting list (youtube.com)

·       NHS wields the axe on 17 'unnecessary procedures' | NHS | The Guardian

·       Complementary and alternative medicine - NHS (www.nhs.uk)

·       National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) 

·       Alexander technique for Parkinson's disease

·      Health funding data analysis (bma.org.uk)

·       How the Tory party has systematically run down the NHS | Letters | The Guardian

·       Listen: Health secretary Victoria Atkins clashes with BBC’s Nick Robinson over NHS spending (msn.com)

 
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Prepare and practice purposefully : John Lamont MP – Event of Monday 28th September 2026

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Edited by Frederique Lanoix, Wednesday 30 September 2026 at 12:26

 The MP John Lamont has kindly agreed to give tips about debating skills. The event which took place on 28th September 2026, was an hour long and accessible on Zoom. The OU Debate Club was very thankful for the intervention and the insight provided by the speaker because of the quality of the advice as well as the relevance of the tips to the club’s aims.

Overall, the event gathered about 45 people, which shows that there is an audience for this type of interaction at the OU.

Before continuing, please have a look at the OU Debate Club website to stay up to date with the upcoming debates, news and events: OU Debate Club | Debate is open

Some of the tips given included the followings: 

General:

• Make it more relatable

• Have your speech drafted several days or weeks before giving the speech

• When possible, think about the difficulties of the argument

• To help you with that, you can check the Ronald Reagan speech after the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion in 1986 (have a look at the Netflix documentary or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/DqilE4AAa-M?si=anwze3hrjqEYScAy)

• What you can retain from the US President Ronald Reagan speech is:

1. The speech must have depth

2. You need to be able to speak to young people – simple and relatable

3. You should cover the reasons why funding is important when applicable 

4. Articulate, structured and prepared 

5. And social media-digestible: Make pauses for editing purposes 

6. Understand and take people’s challenges and make them more vivid as well as engaging for your audience

7. Work on your delivery (tone of voice, pronunciation, accuracy).

8. Know how to deal with points of challenge by fully understanding the topic(inside/out) 

• What does preparation mean?

1. It involves testing your speech with your team or people that you know. It is a storytelling practice where you engage with your audience. Therefore, you should understand the ramifications of the main issues that you present in detail. 

2. As practice makes perfect, you should have your own style, which can include tone of voice and add some appropriate jokes.

• Social media focus:

1. Mention people by their names

2. Practise beforehand to avoid keyword mistakes or people being wrongly named 

3. Be aware that AI is increasingly relied upon by MPs to prepare their speech

4. The best use of AI should serve you to prepare for the opposition's key arguments. Thus, you can be fully able to deal with points of challenge. 

• How to improve and get a well-delivered speech?

1. Join a political party

2. Attend the House of Commons(Feel it, hear it, witness it) it is a form of engagement; alternatively, you can watch Parliamentlive.tv - Commons 

3. Get feedback (make sure you don't have long pauses when giving a speech; avoid stumbling over words)

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The OU Student Association 2024 Elections - My nomination

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Edited by Frederique Lanoix, Thursday 8 October 2026 at 10:03

Volunteering in various organisations and managing my podcast at Home | !Visible (ivisible.co.uk) increased my awareness regarding the lack of equality that exists in the UK. 

For example, there is a lack of representation in the UK media industry for BAMEs. This is particularly true for black women, and the disabled. There is also a lack of access to green spaces for those groups.

So, I believe that I would be very keen on advocating for the increase of Black women's representation, help fight racism to improve equality and provide a better outcome for disabled students.

I suffered from those challenges, and I understand how difficult it can be to overcome those barriers. This put my self-worth in jeopardy for a long time.  

Hence, I have a lived experience of not being represented as a black woman and having to deal with racism in the UK, on top of being miss misunderstood due to my mental health challenges.

Top 4 points that I will advocate for :

    • Increase black women's representation in higher education.
    • Expand tools to tackle racism in higher education.
    • Improve disabled students’ experience in higher education.
    • Grow financial help for students.
    • Raise awareness about the protection of the environment.

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RESIGNATION OF BORIS JOHNSON AS A PM, LETTER TO YOUR LOCAL MP Posted on February 1, 2022

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Edited by Frederique Lanoix, Thursday 4 April 2024 at 19:48

The below is a template of a letter that you can send to your MP in order to request the resignation of the current Prime Minister. 

Dear,

I am writing to you today because I am so exhausted by the way in which the Tory government is treating the most vulnerable.

Today’s PM question

I was utterly disrespectful and a disgrace. The PM has no facts/stats to provide but he is only able to be aggressive toward others without giving a concrete answer to ANY of the questions asked. 

One of his Tory colleague even allowed himself to say publicly that despite the death of hundreds of thousands of people in the UK only due to the Covid-19 pandemic, we should not question the PM and move one. 
The bravado and the arrogance of the Tories are unbearable to watch, especially after all the lies and the current MET police investigation.
Enough is enough, 
We the people need more social housing, less inflation, more opportunities to live decently. This includes having access to shelters, warmth during the winter, nourishing food, adequate working conditions (working from home), less discrimination & racism & violence toward BAME’s and free education. 
Boris Johnson needs to go NOW!
Thanks, 

Reference

www.youtube.com. (n.d.). Boris Johnson makes Commons statement following Sue Gray “partygate” report – watch live. [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnDqyyGcjuk [Accessed 31 Jan. 2022].

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When are we going to have a respectable UK Gov

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Edited by Frederique Lanoix, Thursday 4 April 2024 at 19:48

Last year, I asked when the government would be a respectable one. Have a look at the short YouTube video HERE.  

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Recent Work – Humankind Research : Humankind Research (humankind-research.com)

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Edited by Frederique Lanoix, Sunday 4 October 2026 at 13:08

From February to March 2022, Humankind Research conducted 56 in-depth interviews with disabled people across the UK on behalf of the Office for National Statistics (ONS). 

You can find the research here : Recent Work – Humankind Research : Humankind Research (humankind-research.com)

Outlines of the research: 

Recurring themes which shape disabled people’s experiences in accessing and engaging with activities, goods and services include:

  • different barriers which influence accessibility through the physical design of the built environment, digital design of online services, and the design of systems and processes
  • strategies that disabled people often employ to improvise and adapt to navigate access and engagement barriers
  • the cost of inaccessibility to activities, goods and services, and of strategies to achieve access
  • the impact of coronavirus (COVID-19) on disabled people’s access and engagement with activities, goods and services
  • suggested solutions from participants for improving the inclusiveness of activities, goods and services in the future

(www.ons.gov.uk, n.d.)

Reference 

www.ons.gov.uk. (n.d.). Disabled people’s experiences with activities, goods and services, UK – Office for National Statistics. [online] Available at: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/disability/bulletins/disabledpeoplesexperienceswithactivitiesgoodsandservicesuk/februarytomarch2022 [Accessed 22 Jul. 2022].

La version française : 

De février à mars 2022, Humankind Research a mené 56 entretiens approfondis avec des personnes handicapées à travers le Royaume-Uni pour le compte de l’Office for National Statistics (ONS).

Vous pouvez trouver le résultat de la recherche ici : Humankind Research : Humankind Research (humankind-research.com)

Aperçu de la recherche (NB- la version française de la recherche n’est pas disponible):

  • Les thèmes récurrents qui façonnent les expériences des personnes handicapées en matière d’accès et d’engagement dans les activités, les biens et les services comprennent:
  • les différents obstacles qui influencent l’accessibilité par la conception physique de l’environnement bâti, la conception numérique des services en ligne et la conception des systèmes et des processus
  • les stratégies que les personnes handicapées utilisent souvent pour improviser et s’adapter afin de surmonter les obstacles à l’accès et à l’engagement
  • le coût de l’inaccessibilité aux activités, aux biens et aux services, et des stratégies d’accès
  • l’impact du coronavirus (COVID-19) sur l’accès et l’engagement des personnes handicapées dans les activités, les biens et les services
  • les solutions suggérées par les participants pour améliorer le caractère inclusif des activités, des biens et des services à l’avenir

(www.ons.gov.uk, n.d.)

Reference

www.ons.gov.uk. (n.d.). Disabled people’s experiences with activities, goods and services, UK – Office for National Statistics. [online] Available at: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/disability/bulletins/disabledpeoplesexperienceswithactivitiesgoodsandservicesuk/februarytomarch2022 [Accessed 22 Jul. 2022].



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Cost of living crisis in 2022

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Edited by Frederique Lanoix, Tuesday 2 April 2024 at 16:47

My previous post was also about the cost of living crisis but in 2023. 

This post is actually the transcript of a video that I created last year, which you can find HERE. 

Transcript

Hi, this is Fred from IVisible

For those who do not know my channel I encourage you to check my previous videos and most importantly my website by clicking on the link in the description box of this video.

Today, we will explore the current world of the cost of living crisis in the UK in 2022.

By the time I made this video the situation in the United kingdom is so bad that many families and individuals are in an unrecoverable financial state and this cannot carry on.

Unfortunately, this will not change anytime soon. Karl Williams in his Economic Bulletin dated March 2022, tells us that UK households are facing the twin shocks of the energy price cap rising and a historic increase in taxation on page 4 of his report.

First, to really dive deep into the topic and make sense of Williams arguments, we should define what the cost of living crisis is.

According to the organisation institute for government “The ‘cost of living crisis’ refers to the fall in ‘real’ disposable incomes that the UK has experienced since late 2021. It is being caused predominantly by high inflation.”

So we are talking about prices getting higher which brings us to this June 2022, where the UK experiences an inflation rate of 9.4% according to the Bank of England.

The inflation, had already reached 5% at the beginning of the year 2022 and was expected to pick at 7% three months later in April of the same year.

However, it has reached an unmanageable rate by June 2022 for many households.
As the bank of England explains, It is very concerning to know that “if prices are unpredictable, it is difficult for people to plan how much they can spend, save or invest.

And in extreme cases, high and volatile inflation can cause an economy to collapse.”
It would be devastating to see this happen, but what is even more damaging is that according to The Centre for Social Justice, debt problems are intimately connected to other problems in people’s lives, including mental ill-health and family breakdown.
The enormous pressure that the inflation puts on UK households is also acknowledged by Karl Williams.

The ONS adds that The largest contributions to the annual rate in June 2022 are from housing and household services, and transport.
First, this means that renters are being asked to pay higher rents.

Indeed, The Consumer Prices Index including owner occupiers’ housing costs (CPIH) rose by 8.2% in the 12 months to June 2022.
Simultaneously, Karl Williams said that the energy price are rising and there is a historic increase in taxation although even before the Ukraine crisis, natural gas prices looked likely to remain elevated.

His reports details this even further, by stating that European gas prices look likely to increase this coming winter and quite possibly again in 2023-24 and 2024-25 as you can see in the chart . (Williams, 2022,p5)

This is the reasons why, the price of food and other items necessary for households to live decently are increasing too.

Now, we are narrowing down to the struggle of the most vulnerable, those on low income, and the disabled. It seems that the government aims at targeting those who are in needs.

In order to understand the punishment and deprivation that the universal credit system as well as the inflation means for those groups of people, the BBC in its program Panorama investigated how some universal credit recipients are left destitute, homeless, unable to find adequate help and ill treated by the Department For Work and Pension.

Channel 4 documentary provided an insight into what is like to live on the universal credit.
The guardian also investigated into the government practices of punishing people claiming the Universal Credit.

Sky news interviewed a former Universal Credit agent who confirmed that he had to cut people phone calls short so that they would not have access to basic customer service. They teach us that people in employment are rising, but are facing poverty as the salaries are so low that they cannot afford the basics despite earning a salary. 4 million households were in this category of poor workers in 2018.

And the list can go on. So I made a playlist on my YouTube Channel called The Universal Credit a system driving extreme poverty, for you to look at.
As such, you can make your own judgement about how horrible and unkind this system is and how a change needs to be implemented, as yesterday !!!

But how can the situation be eased at this point is a fundamental and logical question that I tried to answer whilst writing this presentation, and there are a few solutions available.

As per Centre for Policy Studies recommendations, moving to a system of weekly benefit payments and cutting the waiting time for UC would also help to ease the pressures on those who are going to struggle the most.
Karl Williams on page 5 of his report tells us that the UK must work on a plan of making and storing relatively clean energy as cheap as possible as soon as possible.

Also, Keir Starmer spoke to LBC about the topic and was explaining his plan to impose a cap to energy companies. That means stopping the energy companies to charge more.

I would like to add some very important points to this list by stating that the government must review the invoicing process in order to create laws that helps customers to avoid spending more than a certain percentage of their incomes on energy bills and water.

In addition, charitable bodies should not be the only ones capable of dealing with debt collectors on behalf of customers. This is why, I believe that any initiated debt collection related to the cost of living crisis should be fully scrapped.

Furthermore, renationalising the energy, water, debt and housing sectors must be planned in order to avoid this type of crisis. The UK has to look after its people by doing it in house !!!

It also means that the energy companies will have no other choice but to take the inflation increase as a cost that cannot be passed on to the customers for ethical, economic and well being purposes.

Although, I would ask them to make their accounting publicly available so that they cannot make even more profit during the transition from privatisation to nationalisation.

Finally and hopefully, the focus on looking for green energy alternatives will help create a work force dedicated to innovation, research and environmental protection so that the UK can be a pioneer in being sustainable, energy wise for the well being of all upcoming generations.

That is all for today, I hope you did enjoy this video and let me know what you think of the offered solutions in the comment section.
Thanks for listening and see you in the next video!

 

Reference

– www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk. (n.d.). StackPath. [online] Available at: https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainers/cost-living-crisis#:~:text=The%20%E2%80%98cost%20of%20living%20crisis%E2%80%99%20refers%20to%20the.

– Williams, K. (2022). Economic Bulletin Back to the 1970s? Energy Prices and the Cost of Living Crisis. [online] Available at: https://cps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Economic-Bulletin-March-2022.pdf [Accessed 15 Aug. 2022].p2,3,4,5,6,

– The Centre for Social Justice. (n.d.). Debt. [online] Available at: https://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/about/the-five-pathways/debt. – Payne, C. (2022). Consumer Price inflation, UK – Office for National Statistics. [online] www.ons.gov.uk. Available at: https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/bulletins/consumerpriceinflation/latest.

– www.ons.gov.uk. (n.d.). Consumer price inflation basket of goods and services – Office for National Statistics. [online] Available at: https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/articles/ukconsumerpriceinflationbasketofgoodsandservices/latest [Accessed 15 Aug. 2022].

– Bank of England (2022). What is inflation? [online] www.bankofengland.co.uk. Available at: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/knowledgebank/what-is-inflation.

– The Universal Credit Crisis – BBC Panorama. (2018). YouTube. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrdEVhyoiP4. – www.youtube.com. (n.d.). Man on Universal Credit Left with £5 Pounds for Rest of Month. [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj0_ksxPHw4&list=TLPQMTYwODIwMjIOLnWxJqC8lg&index=3 [Accessed 16 Aug. 2022].

– www.youtube.com. (n.d.). Claimants ‘tricked’ out of benefits, says Jobcentre whistleblower. [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XLgg75stn4 [Accessed 16 Aug. 2022].

– www.youtube.com. (n.d.). Keir Starmer speaks to LBC as cost of living crisis bites. [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9An36-ZvaPw&list=TLPQMTgwODIwMjLdsKWUgqASYQ&index=3 [Accessed 18 Aug. 2022].

– www.youtube.com. (n.d.). Growing share of under-30s in UK pay unaffordable rent – BBC News. [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3lUNzXMLSg [Accessed 19 Aug. 2022].

– www.youtube.com. (n.d.). Pharrell Williams – Freedom (Audio). [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Pk_oHxy15M.


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Cost of living crisis committee hearing of 07 June 2023

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I gave my viewpoint about the cost of living crisis issues which you can read below. Also, you can have a look at it in the comment section of the video HERE. The video was made available by Sky News on 07 June 2023.

My comment: 

UC* payment is so low that most people cannot eat fresh food and have to go for the worst quality products. This means that they are getting sick and are at higher risk to develop a bunch of diseases related to having unhealthy diets. Plus, relying on food bank services should not be the only option available for the most vulnerable.
Additionally, they cannot travel (even a trip to the Job center is too expensive), they cannot stay warm or use electricity.

It would make more sense to provide people with an upgrade in terms of payment. This is an emergency action which should not be debated further. Also, the government must cap the energy bill at a maximum of £15/ month per household for those who are the most in need. And, charities that provide services that help the most vulnerable (food banks, shelters, furniture and clothing) should receive a generous allowance that is in line with the current inflation rate.
Where is the compassion in the current system ? I really want to know!

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E-petition debate on the hunting of dolphins and whales in the Faroe Islands – 11 July 2022

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LIVE: E-petition debate on the hunting of dolphins and whales in the Faroe Islands – 11 July 2022

I’d also like to thank the 104,664 petitioners who made this debate today possible, and Dominic Dyer for his continued passion and drive to protect animals.

Mr. Chair on Sunday, the 12th of September last year, a small armada of boats herded a large group of mammals towards a beach. They weren’t tourists. They weren’t scientists.

They weren’t hungry and looking for food. They were Islanders in a sophisticated country in the north of Europe, a country with one of the highest standards of living in the world, the Faroe Islands.

The creatures were highly intelligent mammals, dolphins, and they were being driven towards the scallop path north beach. Now dolphins are playful creatures are not suspicious of mankind. They probably had no idea of their intended fate until it was too late.
It was originally estimated that there were 200 dolphins in the pod, but we now know the number was much higher over 1400 White sided dolphins were set upon with knives, ropes, and with blunted hooks. It took hours to kill them all.
Once the art of senseless killing had stopped, the sea had turned red the scene resembled something from a biblical plague.
How that happened here? The thugs responsible for such a wanton and cruel act would face the full force of the law and would serve prison sentences. Remarkably, however, in our near neighbour the Faroe Islands, what was done was absolutely legal.
What was done was grotesque. The killing of mammals on this scale is sadly a regular occurrence.

Last year, excluding the event on the 12th of September 667, long pilot whales were killed in the Faroe Islands. Today this year alone 182 of these intelligent aquatic mammals, have been needlessly and brutally killed.
The practice of driving whales into specific base is called grinder trap, or more commonly the grind. It has its origins in the Middle Ages were sailors with drive the whales and dolphins to beaches and kill them with spears and rowing boats.
The killing of whales at that time was justifiable the whales were killed in far fewer numbers were vital for the survival of the federal East people who lived at the edge of northern Europe in an unforgiving winter climate. I know a bit about those climates.

Mr. Chair my family on my father’s side are from the Outer Hebrides. My surname Nicholson is Nordic and from Orkney the Faroe Islands southern neighbour. My family lived for countless generations, there are two or three archipelagos has suffered Famines throughout much of their history. Fresh meat and Willow were once vital for survival for folk soda lying to barley, seafood, and later potatoes, but no longer.
The Faroe Islands are thankfully, highly prosperous. The slaughtering of dolphins and whales is not required. In fact, the slaughtered animals are hard to get into the human food chain, as so few people want to eat it, especially young people.
And as for the method of slaughter, who could justify them? and on what basis tradition, sailors now use boats with electric motors to drive large numbers of whales and dolphins into killing bays.

Now, I apologise in advance, but it’s important to know exactly how mammals are killed. It’s not a quick death. Sea Shepherd has reported that the killing of dolphins regularly takes over two minutes and can take up to eight. Eight minutes to died at the hands of rudimentary tools like knives and blunted hooks. The fate for the whales is even more monstrous.
They’re killed by what’s called a spinal Lance, if used correctly, correctly is an unfortunate word under the circumstances, but if used correctly, this will paralyse the wheel, which will then slowly lead to death on average, this process takes 30 minutes 13 minutes of this wounded, paralysed, sentient beings floating in its own blood, while other creatures are killed round about.

The Killing is indiscriminate with pregnant mothers juveniles and calves (new born) being slaughtered. And all this takes place in the 21st century, just 250 miles from the coast of Scotland.
Now the UK Government has expressed its opposition to this barbarism, and to the hunting of sea mammals more generally, and that’s welcome.

The International Whaling Commission has condemned the killings too But no amount of condemnation has worked. So we need to get tougher. And that’s why this petition advocates a greater use of the government’s levers of power. That is the only way that we can ensure that this brutality does not continue.

 

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LIVE: Débat sur la pétition électronique sur la chasse aux dauphins et aux baleines dans les îles Féroé – 11 juillet 2022

L’intervenant remercie la salle.

J’aimerais également remercier les 104 664 pétitionnaires qui ont rendu possible ce débat d’aujourd’hui, ainsi que Dominic Dyer pour sa passion et son dynamisme continus en faveur de la protection des animaux.

Monsieur le Président, le dimanche 12 septembre de l’année dernière, une petite armada de bateaux a rassemblé un grand groupe de mammifères vers une plage. Ce n’étaient pas des touristes.
Ce n’étaient pas des scientifiques. Ils n’avaient pas faim et ne cherchaient pas de nourriture.

Ils étaient insulaires dans un pays sophistiqué du nord de l’Europe, un pays avec l’un des niveaux de vie les plus élevés au monde, les îles Féroé.

Les créatures étaient des mammifères très intelligents, des dauphins, et ils étaient conduits vers la plage nord du chemin des pétoncles.
Il faut savoir que les dauphins sont des créatures curieuses qui ne se méfient pas de l’humain.

Ils n’avaient probablement aucune idée de leur destin jusqu’à ce qu’il soit trop tard.
On estimait à l’origine qu’il y avait 200 dauphins dans le troupeau. Mais nous savons aujourd’hui que le nombre de dauphins tués était beaucoup plus élevé.

Ainsi, 1400 dauphins à flancs blancs ont été attaqués avec des couteaux, des cordes et des crochets émoussés. Il a fallu des heures pour tuer le troupeau entier.

Une fois que la tuerie avait cessé, la mer était devenue rouge. La scène avait un air de devastation de l’ordre biblique.

Comment cela s’est-il passé ici? Les voyous responsables d’un tel acte gratuit et cruel seraient soumis à toute la force de la loi et purgeraient des peines de prison. Remarquablement, cependant, chez notre voisin proche, les îles Féroé, ce qui a été fait était absolument légal.

Ce qui a été fait était grotesque. L’abattage de mammifères à cette échelle est malheureusement un phénomène régulier.

L’année dernière, à l’exception de l’événement du 12 septembre 2021, de longs globicéphales ont été tués dans les îles Féroé. Aujourd’hui, rien que cette année, 182 cétacés ont été tuées.

Ces mammifères aquatiques intelligents, ont été tuées inutilement et brutalement.

La pratique consistant à conduire les baleines dans une base spécifique est appelée piège à broyeur, ou plus communément la mouture.
Cette coutume tient ses origines du moyen âge, où les marins conduisaient les baleines et les dauphins sur les plages et les tuaient avec des lances et des bateaux à rames.

L’abattage des baleines à cette époque était justifiable, les baleines étaient tuées en bien moins grand nombre ce qui était vital pour la survie des peuples fédéraux de l’Est qui vivaient à la périphérie de l’Europe du Nord dans un climat hivernal impitoyable. Je connais ce climat.

Monsieur le Président, ma famille du côté de mon père est originaire des Hébrides extérieures. Mon nom de famille Nicholson est nordique et originaire des Orcades, le voisin sud des îles Féroé. Ma famille a vécu pendant d’innombrables générations, il y a deux ou trois archipels qui ont souffert de famines tout au long de leur histoire.

La viande fraîche et la saule étaient autrefois essentiels à la survie de la population locale. Ceci pouvaient s’ajouter à l’orge, aux fruits de mer et plus tard à la pommes de terre, mais cela n’est plus.

Les îles Féroé sont heureusement très prospères. L’abattage des dauphins et des baleines n’est pas nécessaire. En fait, les animaux abattus sont difficiles à entrer dans la chaîne alimentaire humaine, car si peu de gens veulent les manger, en particulier les jeunes.

Et quant à la méthode d’abattage, qui pourrait les justifier ? et sur quelle base, la tradition peut etre!
De nos jours, les marins utilisent des bateaux à moteur électrique pour conduire un grand nombre de baleines et de dauphins dans des baies meurtrières.

Maintenant, je m’excuse à l’avance, mais il est important de savoir exactement comment les mammifères sont tués.

Ce n’est pas une mort rapide. Sea Shepherd a rapporté que l’abattage des dauphins prend régulièrement plus de deux minutes. Et peut prendre jusqu’à huit minutes. Les dauphins sont tué avec des outils rudimentaires comme des couteaux et des crochets émoussés. Le sort des baleines est encore plus monstrueux.

Les baleines sont tués avec ce qu’on appelle une lance spinale, si cet outil est utilisé correctement, Et soyons clair le mot “correctement” ne devrait pas etre employe dans ces circonstances, mais si ces outils sont utilisés correctement, cela paralyse l’animal, ce qui conduit à une mort lente qui peut duré en moyenne entre 3 et 13 minutes.

Ces êtres blessés, paralysés et encore alertes, flottent dans leurs propre sang, tandis que d’autres créatures sont tuées autour d’eux.

Le meurtre est aveugle! En effet, des mères enceintes, des juvéniles et des nouveau-nés sont abattus. Et tout cela se passe au 21ème siècle, à seulement 400 Kilomètres de la côte écossaise.

Maintenant, le gouvernement britannique a exprimé son opposition à cette barbarie, et à la chasse aux mammifères marins en général, et cela est bien.

La Commission baleinière internationale a également condamné les meurtres, mais aucune condamnation n’a fonctionné.
Nous devons donc nous endurcir.

Et c’est pourquoi cette pétition préconise une plus grande utilisation des leviers de pouvoir du gouvernement.

C’est la seule façon de faire en sorte que cette brutalité ne perdure pas.

Reference
www.youtube.com. (n.d.). LIVE: E-petition debate on the hunting of dolphins and whales in the Faroe Islands – 11 July 2022. [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Gd9QBpBwwA&list=TLPQMDQwODIwMjJ9Z76WtT-IIw&index=45 [Accessed 5 Aug. 2022].

World Cetacean Alliance. (n.d.). Our Vision. [online] Available at: https://worldcetaceanalliance.org/who-we-are/our-vision/ [Accessed 8 Aug. 2022].

 


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Cost of living crisis in the UK in 2022

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THE COST OF LIVING CRISIS IN THE UK IN 2022


Transcript of the videoi s below and the content can be found HERE. 

Hi this is Fred from IVisible

For those who do not know my channel I encourage you to check my previous videos and most importantly my website by clicking on the link in the description box of this video.

Today, we will explore the current world of the cost of living crisis in the UK in 2022.

By the time I made this video the situation in the United kingdom is so bad that many families and individuals are in an unrecoverable financial state and this cannot carry on.

Unfortunately, this will not change anytime soon. Karl Williams in his Economic Bulletin dated March 2022, tells us that UK households are facing the twin shocks of the energy price cap rising and a historic increase in taxation on page 4 of his report.

First, to really dive deep into the topic and make sense of Williams arguments, we should define what the cost of living crisis is.

According to the organisation institute for government “The ‘cost of living crisis’ refers to the fall in ‘real’ disposable incomes that the UK has experienced since late 2021. It is being caused predominantly by high inflation.”

So we are talking about prices getting higher which brings us to this June 2022, where the UK experiences an inflation rate of 9.4% according to the Bank of England.The inflation, had already reach 5% at the beginning of the year 2022 and was expected to pick at 7% three months later in April of the same year.

However, it has reached an unmanageable rate by June 2022 for many households.
As the bank of England explains, It is very concerning to know that “if prices are unpredictable, it is difficult for people to plan how much they can spend, save or invest.

And in extreme cases, high and volatile inflation can cause an economy to collapse.”
It would be devastating to see this happen, but what is even more damaging is that according to The Centre for Social Justice, debt problems are intimately connected to other problems in people’s lives, including mental ill-health and family breakdown.
The enormous pressure that the inflation puts on UK households is also acknowledged by Karl Williams.

The ONS adds that The largest contributions to the annual rate in June 2022 are from housing and household services, and transport.
First, this means that renters are being asked to pay higher rents.

Indeed, The Consumer Prices Index including owner occupiers’ housing costs (CPIH) rose by 8.2% in the 12 months to June 2022.
Simultaneously, Karl Williams said that the energy price are rising and there is a historic increase in taxation, although even before the Ukraine crisis, natural gas prices looked likely to remain elevated.

His reports details this even further, by stating that European gas prices look likely to increase this coming winter and quite possibly again in 2023-24 and 2024-25 as you can see in the chart . (Williams, 2022,p5)

This is the reasons why, the price of food and other items necessary for households to live decently are increasing too.

Now, we are narrowing down to the struggle of the most vulnerable, those on low income, and the disabled. It seems that the government aims at targeting those who are in needs.

In order to understand the punishment and deprivation that the universal credit system as well as the inflation means for those groups of people, the BBC in its program Panorama investigated how some universal credit recipients are left destitute, homeless, unable to find adequate help and ill treated by the Department For Work and Pension.

Channel 4 documentary provided an insight into what is like to live on the universal credit.
The guardian also investigated into the government practices of punishing people claiming the Universal Credit.

Sky news interviewed a former Universal Credit agent who confirmed that he had to cut people phone calls short so that they would not have access to basic customer service. They teach us that people on employment are rising but are facing poverty as the salaries are so low that they cannot afford the basics despite earning a salary. 4 million households were in this category of poor workers in 2018.

And the list can go on. So I made a playlist on my YouTube Channel called The Universal Credit a system driving extreme poverty, for you to look at.
As such, you can make your own judgement about how horrible and unkind this system is and how a change needs to be implemented, as yesterday !!!

But how can the situation be eased at this point is a fundamental and logical question that I tried to answer whilst writing this presentation, and there are a few solutions available.

As per Centre for Policy Studies recommendations, moving to a system of weekly benefit payments and cutting the waiting time for UC would also help to ease the pressures on those who are going to struggle the most.
Karl Williams on page 5 of his report tells us that the UK must work on a plan of making and storing relatively clean energy as cheap as possible as soon as possible.

Also, Keir Starmer spoke to LBC about the topic and was explaining his plan to impose a cap to energy companies. That means stopping the energy companies to charge more.

I would like to add some very important points to this list by stating that the government must review the invoicing process in order to create laws that helps customers to avoid spending more than a certain percentage of their incomes on energy bills and water.

In addition, charitable bodies should not be the only ones capable of dealing with debt collectors on behalf of customers. This is why, I believe that any initiated debt collection related to the cost of living crisis should be fully scrapped.

Furthermore, renationalising the energy, water, debt and housing sectors must be planned in order to avoid this type of crisis. The UK has to look after its people by doing it in house !!!

It also means that the energy companies will have no other choice but to take the inflation increase as a cost that cannot be passed on to the customers for ethical, economic and well being purposes.

Although, I would ask them to make their accounting publicly available so that they cannot make even more profit during the transition from privatisation to nationalisation.

Finally and hopefully, the focus on looking for green energy alternatives will help creating a work force dedicated to innovation, research and environmental protection so that the UK can be a pioneer in being sustainable energy wise for the well being of all up coming generations.

That is all for today, I hope you did enjoy this video and let me know what you think of the offered solutions in the comment section.
Thanks for listening and see you in the next video!

 

Reference

– www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk. (n.d.). StackPath. [online] Available at: https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainers/cost-living-crisis#:~:text=The%20%E2%80%98cost%20of%20living%20crisis%E2%80%99%20refers%20to%20the.

– Williams, K. (2022). Economic Bulletin Back to the 1970s? Energy Prices and the Cost of Living Crisis. [online] Available at: https://cps.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Economic-Bulletin-March-2022.pdf [Accessed 15 Aug. 2022].p2,3,4,5,6,

– The Centre for Social Justice. (n.d.). Debt. [online] Available at: https://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/about/the-five-pathways/debt. – Payne, C. (2022). Consumer Price inflation, UK – Office for National Statistics. [online] www.ons.gov.uk. Available at: https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/bulletins/consumerpriceinflation/latest.

– www.ons.gov.uk. (n.d.). Consumer price inflation basket of goods and services – Office for National Statistics. [online] Available at: https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/articles/ukconsumerpriceinflationbasketofgoodsandservices/latest [Accessed 15 Aug. 2022].

– Bank of England (2022). What is inflation? [online] www.bankofengland.co.uk. Available at: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/knowledgebank/what-is-inflation.

– The Universal Credit Crisis – BBC Panorama. (2018). YouTube. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrdEVhyoiP4. – www.youtube.com. (n.d.). Man on Universal Credit Left with £5 Pounds for Rest of Month. [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj0_ksxPHw4&list=TLPQMTYwODIwMjIOLnWxJqC8lg&index=3 [Accessed 16 Aug. 2022].

– www.youtube.com. (n.d.). Claimants ‘tricked’ out of benefits, says Jobcentre whistleblower. [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XLgg75stn4 [Accessed 16 Aug. 2022].

– www.youtube.com. (n.d.). Keir Starmer speaks to LBC as cost of living crisis bites. [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9An36-ZvaPw&list=TLPQMTgwODIwMjLdsKWUgqASYQ&index=3 [Accessed 18 Aug. 2022].

– www.youtube.com. (n.d.). Growing share of under-30s in UK pay unaffordable rent – BBC News. [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3lUNzXMLSg [Accessed 19 Aug. 2022].

– www.youtube.com. (n.d.). Pharrell Williams – Freedom (Audio). [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Pk_oHxy15M.


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Fab Socialism

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Last year, I created a series of videos on Black YouTubers whom I found very interesting. 

The first video can be found HERE and the transcript is below. 

Hi this Fred from IVisible

For those who do not know my channel I encourage you to check my previous videos and most importantly, my website by clicking on the link in the description box of this video.

I would love to hear from you regarding both the quality of the videos and the website

So please leave a few words in the comment section of this video.
Without any further a due, let’s get into todays’ video topic!
I have worked on a series about Black female youtubers who are to me worth learning from.

Hence the first Youtuber of the Serie is Fab Socialism

She is very articulate, organised, able to quote and create a good atmosphere. It is easy to understand her point of view without feeling threaten by her ideas or any of her arguments

Her sense of humour is uplifting and respectful which is a breath of fresh air in today's constant search for sensationalism. That makes her entertaining and credible.

Indeed, there are not many unlikeable or annoying features that could let the viewers think twice before watching.
Although some of her videos are long but this again is a plus to me because I love hearing her talk about what she cares about.
She is very pretty and smooth talking which makes the message easy to remember.
Finally, the quality of her editing skills or the person who manages her editing is excellent.
That is all for me today, I hope you did enjoy this video and let me know what you think of Fab Socialism in the comment section.
Thanks for listening and see you in the next video!

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At the window

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Edited by Frederique Lanoix, Tuesday 2 April 2024 at 16:50

Last year, I adopted a kitten and in this video you can see it play at the window. 

Just cute and relaxing. 

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Natural Vibes

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Edited by Frederique Lanoix, Tuesday 2 April 2024 at 16:50

Another video published on YouTube HERE.

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Nature

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Edited by Frederique Lanoix, Tuesday 2 April 2024 at 16:52

Please have a look at my videos about nature HERE. 

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