Go and have a lie down Ryan. You’re a nice chap with some good ideas but you’re making a tit of yourself with this. What you want is a recipe for no meaningful scrutiny. All specialists are to some degree captives of the contacts on their patch - see business, sports and fashion journalists too. Having jack of All Trades pol eds are a protection against that and the collective force of the lobby - flawed and too beloved of personality as it undoubtedly is sometimes - is the best defence for the public. Individual journalists can be bullied and pushed off scandal (see Arday) but as a pack there is strength in numbers. And news organisations are not just there for the public service. They are commercial organisations and if you want the (vast) policy coverage that appears you also need it to be worth reading. Most people outside of specialist journals don’t debate policy. By pinning different solutions to their political supporters much nuance can be smuggled in by showing who is advancing what and why. And we write about internal rows and debates and careers and ambition precisely because you cannot understand the acquisition, use and abuse of power without doing so - and because frankly that’s what politicians and their aides spend a huge amount of time thinking about. Policy doesn’t exist in a vacuum and “what works” is often less important than who is pushing an idea and why. Power struggles, union backing, business group advocacy and ministerial oneupmanship are all part of determining which policy gets adopted