Fear of differing outcomes means councils are reluctant to use the powers they have, and government is loath to give them more. Not so in other parts of the world.
In February, major news provider Newshub announced its closure. It will shut its doors on 5 July, leading to the loss of 300 jobs in a tiny sector. Most of those journalists won’t be rehired.
How did we arrive at the point where Conservative ministers – who are now speaking up – are being forced to mount a rearguard action against our own public sector organisations?
More Ministers need to talk to the public bodies that report through them and hold them accountable for their budgets and actions. Too many of them let us down.
Starmer’s promises change are superficial; the underlying Labour message is that the foreseeable future won’t be so very different from the recent past. But there can be no Conservative alternative without a change in prime minister.
The common style of the journalistic takeover of historical writing can be best described as the replacement of real, investigative scholarship with midwit fact-checking.
The adoption of an America First strategy today would have a different effect on global stability than it would have had 80 years ago, when the U.S.A. was yet to walk upon the world stage. Today isolationism would signal the collapse of the United States as a super-power.
More than 60 years on from CP Snow’s famous lecture on the ‘Two Cultures’, the gulf he identified between the sciences and the arts is still with us.
How does the Parliament of a country one-fifth of whose territory has been occupied by Russia end up voting for a Russian-style law to attack independent civil society?
Simon Harris seems determined to improve the mood music, talking up the need for strong Anglo-Irish relations and refocusing Northern Irish policy on maintaining the peace and building prosperity.
If the Rwanda scheme succeeds, it will be a personal vindication for Sunak. But it will also show that Parliament works. If not, however unfairly, it will be the Government voters blame for the failure.
Rather than stay in the Freedom Caucus’ cage, Mike Johnson has used it to govern. Instead of simply accepting the lot of a frozen House, he has assembled those majorities by reaching across the aisle to Democrats.
The West Midlands needs a financially-competent executive who will put the interests of its citizens above petty national politicking.
National insurance and ID cards would be more effective than Brexit at tackling people’s anxieties about how the integrity of the British welfare state can best be protected.
Her history is confused but some may still be persuaded by her argument that the judiciary is too left-wing and Conservative ministers should be able to appoint more ideologically sympathetic candidates.