Hysnaps Political Investigations

Episode 3 of 3. Why we will always need regulation in the Financial Services sector, and why there is continual pressure to minimise it.

Episode 2 of 3 looking at Financial Services in the UK. A look at how incentives encourage the way people and systems act.

Episode 1 of 3 looking at Financial Services in the UK. We start with a look at history and how things have changed.

Episode 12 - the last in my series looking at Policy Making. In this episode I pull everything together and summarise what I have discovered in the previous 11 episodes.

Episode 11 - of my look at Policy Making. This episode carries on the look at the Illegal drugs market and estimates how much money has been wasted trying to fight the war on drugs.

Episode 10 of my series looking at Policy Making. Having in the last episode shown that the state pays out twice the Street value of the Illegal Drugs market in punishing and cleaning up after it, could there be a better way of spending that money that will actually improve society and control the market.

Episode 9 of my series looking at policy making. I take a deeper look at the financial cost of the UK's existing drug policy, and who has been getting rich.

Episode 8 of my series looking at Policy Making - this time I look at how other countries handled the same issues, and what we can learn from this.

Episode 7 of my look at policy making, this time I pull together what's come to the front during the previous episodes and posts.

Episode 6 of my look at Policy Making and how it has approached different issues, the unintended outcomes that arise and issues that compound.

The 5th in my series of discussions of my posts looking at policy making and its impact on Sex Work. A look at what has worked and what hasn't.

The 4th in my longest so far series - there will be 12 episodes. Looking at Political Policy Making, what influences it, what makes good policy and what causes issues,

So whilst writing my blog and doing some analysis to support it - I encountered an interesting issue. I use AI as a research assistant and logic checker - I was looking at whether households over their life time contribute more to the state than they receive back. The initial result raised some questions so I went checking and discovered why You Should Never Trust A Computer Blindly. https://hysna...

Post 3 in my series lookin at Policy Making..

Post 2 in my series looking at Policy Making. This time we look at the problem of human beings.

The first in my longest so far series - there will be 12 episodes. Looking at Political Policy Making, what influences it, what makes good policy and what causes issues,

The last post - post number 6 - in my series looking at the Uk and Free speech. This time I look at how electoral systems impact a Nation's free speech and can protect it or erode it.

Post 5 in my series looking at free speech in the UK, and what works to when countries start to decrease a populous' s access to free speech.

Podcast 3 in my series looking at Free Speech in the UK.

Second in my series looking at Free Speech This time we look at if our right didn't come from the Magna Carta, then where did it come from?.

The first in a small series looking at Free speech in the UK, what rights we have, where they came from and how it impacts our lives.

The last in my look at human rights, the ECHR and HRA, this is a bit like what good did the romans do for us?.. Original Blog https://hysnapsmusicandmentalhealth.wordpress.com/?p=8617

Continuing my look at the ECHR and Human Rights Act - we are often told that the UK courts are struggling because of the number of Human Rights based cases, and that these are also leaching large amounts of funding out of the system. So i went to have a look. Original Blog https://hysnapsmusicandmentalhealth.wordpress.com/2026/01/07/lets-rethink-human-rights-are-uk-courts-really-swamped-with-human...

Part 2 of my look at the relationship between UK and the ECHR. This time I'm looking at whether the perception that the ECHR bosses the UK government around is true. Full Blog Post. https://hysnapsmusicandmentalhealth.wordpress.com/2026/01/06/lets-rethink-human-rights-does-the-echr-actually-boss-britain-around/

I thought I understood what the ECHR was and why it existed, turns out I didn't quite have the full picture. So I investigated and wrote a blog post, here is a conversation generated by AI explaining what I discovered. Original Post https://hysnapsmusicandmentalhealth.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/lets-rethink-human-rights-so-what-is-the-echr-anyway/