A Redistribution With Consequences The Labour government’s Fair Funding reforms were always going to produce winners and losers. What is now becoming clear, with uncomfortable precision, is just how steep the losses will be for a cluster of London boroughs…
The Houthis are advancing, the Red Sea is growing more dangerous, and the international community is running short of credible responses. That, in essence, is the assessment of Baraa Shiban, Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute and a…
Hastings Borough Council has approved a modest but revealing extension to its Dog Control Public Space Protection Order: from November, anyone in charge of a dog in the borough will be expected to carry a suitable bag, receptacle or other…
The case for a more robust regulatory framework around Royal Mail is becoming difficult to ignore. With over 100 MPs now formally urging Ofcom to take tougher action over persistent delivery failures, the central question is no longer whether Royal…
More than 1.1 million pensioners in the United Kingdom may be failing to claim Attendance Allowance, a non-means-tested benefit worth up to £5,959.20 per year, according to estimates published by personal finance commentator Martin Lewis and his team in conjunction…
Britain cannot indefinitely sustain a fiscal settlement that subordinates national security to welfare expenditure — and Kemi Badenoch has now said so plainly. In a significant statement of Conservative economic and defence policy, the party leader has set out a…
When Keir Starmer announced earlier this month that he would resign his parliamentary seat to pursue work in international affairs, the announcement triggered an immediate contest for one of Labour’s most historically secure urban constituencies. Holborn and St Pancras has…
Joyce Thomas is 78 years old, a retired nurse, and has lived in Sweden for more than two decades. Her husband is buried there. Her son and grandchildren are there. Her friends are there. And yet, under the administrative machinery…
A long-derelict theme park site in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, is set to be transformed into a large-scale coastal holiday resort, pending a planning decision by North East Lincolnshire Council that has been delayed by legal representations and environmental objections. The 60-acre…
Picture a safeguarding officer at a secondary school somewhere in England, filing a referral about a troubled pupil for the third time. The response arrives in due course: does not meet threshold. No explanation. No support. The child returns to…