2+ day, 5+ hour ago   (1162+ words) I was in Thailand twenty five years ago when I first came across one of my favourite phrases. My mum, a teacher, had taken a role in private school in Bangkok and moved out there with my stepfather and brother....

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (597+ words) As is almost always the case, I was, yet again, proven right. In all honesty, it’s fast becoming a trend that I am growing tired of. Repeatedly, I have to shoehorn ‘I told you so’ into conversations at the pub....

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (1083+ words) James Windsor-Clive was the Conservative candidate for the Ealing Central and Acton at the 2024 general election. The UK is in the doldrums. Incomes have stagnated for the best part of two decades, and people have little hope of fortunes improving....

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (71+ words) The Prime Minister outlined 'the Labour way' of funding defence, the Leader of the Opposition told him not only was he wrong, but he simply doesn't know where he's getting the money for any of his plans defence or otherwise....

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (920+ words) There was something revealing about John Healey’s speech on Monday. At a moment when Britain desperately needs an economic strategy, the Chancellor offered something closer to economic cognitive therapy: retraining us to believe that if growth feels possible, it will…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (658+ words) I’m going to say something which may well get me a good telling off. There is something oddly reassuring about John Healey. His demeanor is very much that of an experienced accountant, with his bald head ricocheting light around the…...

5+ day, 21+ 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…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1508+ words) Matthew Jeffery is an experienced global talent and recruitment leader, with more than 25 years advising boards and C-suite executives on workforce strategy, skills, and productivity. At 3.17am, the emergency alert screams from every phone in your street, that hideous metallic wail…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (736+ words) Dr Sarah Ingham is the author of The Military Covenant: its impact on civil-military relations in Britain. It should be no surprise that the tax-greedy Burnham government, desperate to lure away from Reform the Red Wall voters they took for…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (429+ words) Andy Cook, is CEO of the Centre for Social Justice. This week we have become painfully aware of the lawlessness that is troubling many of Britain’s most neglected communities. In just a few days, Middlesbrough was plunged into terror, with…...