How did His Majesty’s Government get itself in such an integrity-destroying tangle over Peter Mandelson’s appointment as Ambassador to the USA? The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, 10 ...

Most of us by now will have heard of the tech giant Palantir, and its deal with the NHS to build a federated data platform. Putting to one side the influences of Boris Johnson, Dominic Cummings and ...

Energy Security. The Ukraine War made it a hot topic for a Europe dependent on Russian oil and gas. The Iran War - alongside the climate change debate -  has revived the issue for the rest of the ...

The Lords get a week off from debating Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill – it’ll be back next week, apparently. Three weeks ago, I suggested that the only real positive I could draw from this ...

With apologies to all, as it seems as though my primary e-mail account has decided to glitch, only accepting some but not all e-mails directed to it… here are some press releases that have been issued ...

Imagine the UK economy suddenly becoming £180 billion richer every single year – not as a one‑off sugar rush, but as a permanent, compounding uplift. That is what rejoining the European Union could ...

There were two principal council by-elections this week, both of which had a Liberal Democrat candidate on the ballot. Salford City Council, Barton & Winton The first by-election of the week took ...

Despite it being more than two years away, there is a great deal of interest in the 2028 US presidential election. As such, there is fierce speculation about who the Democrats’ candidate will be. Whil ...

What just happened at Westminster? Does anyone else think Keir Starmer played MPs and the media like a violin this week? On Monday, I thought at least one MP would ask the simple and obvious question.

Few institutions define modern Britain as strongly as the National Health Service. Created in 1948 under the leadership of Aneurin Bevan, the NHS was founded on a simple but powerful promise: ...

In July 2025, South Cambridgeshire District Council did something no other UK council had done. It made the four-day week permanent. Not as a trial, not as a temporary arrangement, but as the way the ...