The Horizon scandal ought to have taught public bodies that prosecutions can have a very destructive effect on the innocent, and therefore must only be initiated after a careful assessment of the evidence.
Obesity is a complex problem, and squeezing low-income households with mandatory price hikes won’t solve it.
The ban on flavoured tobacco is a sign of a public health lobby that is too focused on coercive regulation and inexperienced at debate and persuasion.
The Government needs to listen to its critical friends and produce fast reform of this scheme to help Britain compete.
The UK is very well-placed to make the most of a technological boom age – except for one great and persisting tech weakness: a shortage of trained people.
Labour has no media-relations talent of their calibre today; and recent efforts to tarnish both Reform and the Conservatives have been lame and short-lived.