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 ...
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.
Some people stand at the front and lead, others sit and back and chunter. Jeanette Sunderland did both, and did them both very well. Forthright, clear, determined, energetic and a real sense of ...
There is something increasingly puzzling - and politically dangerous - about the way that Keir Starmer governs. It is not simply that things go wrong on his watch; every Prime Minister faces crisis, ...
With the progation of Parliament approaching fast, it’s something of a “hanging around” week for those on the red benches, ...
Governments don’t just underestimate culture, media and sport, they depend on them, while systematically failing to sustain them. In the UK, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport stands as a ...
I appreciated Gareth McAleer’s article in Lib Dem Voice on the economic power-up to be had from rejoining the EU, but while I support his desire to rejoin I think a different approach will be more ...
Last week, the government forced through parliament the controversial “cumulative disruption” power, which enables police to ban protests on the grounds that they take place repeatedly. This attack on ...