A modest but well-structured initiative operating across England and Wales is demonstrating how creative activity, combined with a straightforward market mechanism, can contribute meaningfully to prisoner rehabilitation without placing additional demands on the public purse. The programme enables incarcerated individuals…
What is the current dispute over fuel duty? Industry leaders have written privately to Chancellor John Healey urging him to abandon a planned fuel duty increase, warning that pump prices are climbing sharply and may remain elevated for months as…
The central question raised by Donald Trump’s disclosure that he came within hours of launching what he described as the largest American military strike since the Second World War is not whether the threat was credible, but whether the diplomacy…
When John Healey resigned as Defence Secretary in June, he did so with a clear and unambiguous demand: Britain must commit to spending 3 per cent of GDP on defence by 2030. It was a principled stand, and his subsequent…
A dispute rooted in governance and money The row between FIFA and its member associations over the proposed commercialisation of the World Cup has escalated sharply within the space of days, exposing deep fault lines over how football’s governing body…
The United States has struck Iran directly, in what the Pentagon framed as a measured but forceful answer to a sustained campaign of Iranian aggression against American military personnel in the Middle East. The sequence of events began with what…
What is Burnham actually proposing? Andy Burnham has made reducing Britain’s £333 billion welfare bill a central ambition of his new premiership. The centrepiece of his emerging approach would require young people to engage in training or voluntary work as…
A rape trial at Lewes Crown Court collapsed mid-proceedings after the complainant admitted to using artificial intelligence to prepare her answers for cross-examination, prompting the Court of Appeal’s criminal division to order a retrial and issue broader guidance on the…
A widening gap between work and welfare Consider a teenager in Manchester or Leeds who takes on a part-time job at the national minimum wage — the kind of entry-level work that has traditionally served as a first rung on…
Britain’s social care system is broken, and the government knows it. The question is whether the political will to fix it can outlast the institutional inertia that has defeated every previous attempt. Prime Minister Andy Burnham is set to deliver…