A non-partisan, evidence-based examination of what is broken in British public life and what it would take to fix it. Every claim sourced. Every weakness documented. No party affiliation. No private funding.
New page summarising the October 2026 Budget from the official documents and comparing each relevant measure with this site's proposals: moves towards, moves away, a different approach, or related.
Correction. The page said the government's promise to return to 0.7% had no test.
Key Proposals now carry a tag when a government announces, legislates or brings into force something close to them, or rules them out, taken only from official documents.
The October 2026 Budget confirmed the change to the triple lock first announced in September: from April 2030 the state pension is to rise by the highest of inflation, 2.5% or the amount needed to keep its value against earnings…
New Science and Research pillar. It sets out UK research spending against other countries, the rise in the government's research budget, how university research is funded below its cost and supported by international students'…
Where the money goes
→ Evidence & AnalysisDiagnosis, workforce, and reform
→ Evidence & AnalysisFrom early years to skills gaps
→ Evidence & AnalysisThe system and its failures
→ Evidence & AnalysisThe crisis and what caused it
→ Evidence & AnalysisCourts, prisons, and legal aid
→ Evidence & AnalysisStrategy, procurement, and alliances
→ Evidence & AnalysisWhat it is and what it means
→ Evidence & AnalysisWhy it's not a pension at all
→ Evidence & AnalysisWhat gets paid first, and why
→ Evidence & AnalysisA revenue base stuck in 1991
→ Evidence & AnalysisBarnett, need, and the English regions
→ Evidence & AnalysisRail, roads, buses and fuel duty
→ Evidence & AnalysisWater, flooding, waste and nature
→ Evidence & AnalysisWhat counts as aid, and what it buys
→ Evidence & AnalysisR&D funding, universities and tax relief
→The mechanics, plainly explained
→ Evidence & AnalysisWhat people believe vs. what is true
→ Evidence & AnalysisStructure, productivity, and reform
→ Evidence & AnalysisThe proposals
→ Evidence & AnalysisThe full toolkit beyond inheritance tax
→ Evidence & AnalysisThe case for and against each approach
→ Evidence & AnalysisWhat the Budget did, set against our proposals
→ Evidence & AnalysisPost-Brexit reality and options
→Live public debates and working papers that don’t sit inside a single pillar — tracked as the argument develops, not held back until every question is settled. A lighter evidentiary bar than the numbered pillars, by design.
Proscription law, superinjunctions, and the case for reform
→ In DiscussionWho gets what, and why
→ In DiscussionDay-to-day spending vs. strategic capital investment
→ In DiscussionShould the Bank stop paying interest on QE reserves?
→ In DiscussionCould solar panels and crops share a field profitably?
→ In DiscussionWhy no single pillar owns this, and what it looks like when the pressures compound
→ In DiscussionThe physics isn't the argument. The sequencing, cost allocation and pace are
→ In DiscussionThe numbers, what has been tried, and why none of it has produced a durable fix
→ In DiscussionWhat withdrawal would actually mean, and who wrote it in the first place
→ In DiscussionWho spends what, who owes what, and who owns what, by age
→ In DiscussionWhat has to happen first, and in what order
→Known limitations and open questions
→All cited sources
→Changes that have been made to content
→Why we verify, how we verify, and what we do with the data
→What it takes for a claim to earn a place on this site, and where that breaks down
→Found something wrong? Tell us what and why
→Related UK policy work, and where each sits politically
→Decisions, votes and data still to come that will test what this site says
→"The countries that have built better public systems did not do so because they had different people. They did so because at specific historical moments, the political conditions existed for evidence to drive decisions rather than interest groups."
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