I don’t perceive the current Labour Government making these changes for political reasons. In my view two-tier local government is inevitably inefficient, and needs to be made one-tier ...

I am very dubious that marginal cost pricing is really the cause of our high electricity bills. I chose to invest a few years ago in a wind farm in Scotland which became operational last July and ...

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Thank you Miranda. You write as a secular Jew, but the late Jonathan Sacks, former leader of the Orthodox Jewish community in the UK, wrote in his book ‘The dignity of difference’: “For ...

Talk about reforming the House of Lords has been going on for many decades but in 2011 a cross-party draft bill proposed 300 members, 80% elected and 20% appointed. The bill was dropped in 2012 ...

The UK has always been far more subservient to the US than any other Western nation. Witness Blair on Iraq, May racing to invite Trump’s state visit, and now Streeting offering to work with Musk ...

Alex Cole-Hamilton sets out the issues the Scottish Lib Dems will be campaigning for in the coming year. They won’t come as a surprise to party members – social care, housing, carers ...

In his New Year message, Ed Davey has looked back to the fun and success of 2024 and promises more smiles alongside the hard work in 2025. He calls on Labour to get on with delivering the ...

Jimmy Carter was right about Israel In 2009, Carter’s three hours of talks with senior Hamas officials, including Ismail Haniyeh, then its leader in Gaza but assassinated by Israel this year ...

What is the “Deep State”? How will President Donald Trump dismantle it? And why is it more likely that he will end up re-constructing it with a deeper, more biased political complexion. If you are ...