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Kimberley Harmer: Escaping domestic violence people can get out and the bruises fade - but the words don't
3+ day, 11+ min ago (1524+ words) Kimberley Harmer is CDG national Deputy chairman, CPF Regional Ambassador for Humber and Yorkshire, Senior Caseworker for Charlie Dewhirst MP. and a VAWG & Gender Based violence Advisor. There is a sentence that many survivors of domestic abuse understand instinctively: “The…...
John Oxley: British education isn't so much leaning in the PISA rankings - it's learned to fall over
3+ day, 6+ hour ago (387+ words) John Oxley is a consultant, writer, and broadcaster. His SubStack is Joxley Writes. If Shakespeare were a political commentator, he might have observed that the bad things governments do live after them, and that the good is oft interred with…...
Rebecca Pow: In Somerset and beyond we need more collaboration to manage flood risk
4+ day, 7+ hour ago (497+ words) The delivery of housebuilding should be carefully reviewed. Between 2022 and 2024, one in nine homes was built in a flood risk area. If this trend continues, 165,000 of the 1.5 million new homes the government plans to build would be situated in medium…...
Tony Devenish: My Manifesto for London - for Cleverly - but for a contest
5+ day, 7+ hour ago (243+ words) Cllr Tony Devenish represents Knightsbridge and Belgravia Ward on Westminster City Council. He is a former member of the London Assembly. James Cleverly has announced he will stand for selection to (hopefully) become our Party’s Candidate for Mayor of London....
Diana Beech: Burnham's hard hat obsession belongs in the 1970s
5+ day, 22+ hour ago (882+ words) Diana Beech is former policy adviser to three Conservative Universities and Science Ministers. She is now Director of the Finsbury Institute – a public policy hub at City St George’s, University of London. One of Kemi Badenoch’s sharpest criticisms of the…...
Calum Davies: A fabulous actor but no Prince of Wales - Michael is peeling the sheen off Welsh nationalism
6+ day, 2+ hour ago (289+ words) Calum Davies is a Conservative councillor in Cardiff and former Senedd candidate. Were I to tell you that this column is going to be about the Royal Family, you may be forgiven for thinking that several paragraphs are coming up…...
Annabelle Sanderson: South West women have a Liberal Democrat problem
1+ week, 4+ day ago (851+ words) Annabelle Sanderson, is Deputy Political Chair of her local Conservative branch and was a 2025 Conservative candidate in the 2025 local elections. She previously served as UKIP’s Head of Media. Since the Supreme Court’s ruling on the 16th April 2025, publicly funded institutions across…...
Andy Street: Business rates are broken
1+ week, 4+ day ago (566+ words) Andy Street is Co-Chair of Prosper UK, served as the first Mayor of the West Midlands, and was formerly Managing Director of John Lewis. The new Prime Minister has taken over the same problem that defeated his predecessor: an underperforming…...
Luke Evans: Labour's NHS reforms are putting patients at risk
2+ week, 2+ day ago (686+ words) Dr Luke Evans MP is shadow minister for health and social care. This Government wants to tell a positive story about the NHS. Just before Wes Streeting resigned as Health Secretary in the hopes of challenging Keir Starmer for leadership…...
Jo Edwards: You're wrong about marriage, Neil O'Brien
2+ week, 3+ day ago (535+ words) Jo Edwards is a family lawyer and mediator who chairs the law reform committee of national family lawyers’ organisation Resolution In an article last week titled It’s time to talk about marriage, Neil O’Brien argues against proposals to introduce rights…...