No where in this text can I see a quote from him saying that he’d legalise all drugs. This “public health approach” sounds like decriminalisation, which is what I’d advocate for, but not legalisation, I don’t want to be seeing Tesco value acid available behind the counter, right?

I’m not sure a license is the best way to go about it, but I certainly do think something needs to change.

I believe there should be some sort of minimum commitment to training if a person gets a new dog, i.e. you can have a puppy but you must have already booked up x amount of training sessions, and have vets appointments booked in.

And with cats, it’d like to see pre-booked appointments for neutering/spaying and microchipping, because apparently according to my neighbours, you can buy kittens, not do any of that and then just let them be feral around your neighbourhood and not really have to take care of them at all.

I’d actually like to see legislation on new cats not being let outside unless contained in a catio or something.

Check out how Bicing in Barcelona works, problem is already solved there, no need to start fining lime, just change the legislation so that these services need to have physical locking racks where bikes can be both left and retrieved from, that way they can’t be stolen and they’ll be kept in better condition because they aren’t being pinched constantly.

The problem with Amazon is they will list and deliver any product under the sun, the organisation as a whole should have been forced to split by the Competition and Markets Authority years ago, but it wasn’t and now they basically have a monopoly on online sales. So it depends on what you’re after. Groceries? Try a supermarket like Tesco. Books? Try Waterstones. Electronics? Currys (awful though). Weird cables and adapters? Maplins still have a website.

If you want to support artists, try bandcamp, it has streaming but it’s more of a “try before you buy service”, and money goes directly to the artists’ accounts. Mp3/flacs with no DRM or just stream as much as you like. For an old-head like me who still has an SD card and a headphone jack on my phone, it’s perfect.