Articles for the Herald and Post

A new ‘financial year’ is upon us. Most of us think in calendar years (January to December) and educators work on academic years (starting in September). But...

There is one issue I have returned to time and again over the past year – youth unemployment. And for good reason. Youth unemployment is now at a ten-year high...

As the first signs of spring appear – and with the occasional glimpse of sunshine – many of us are finally emerging from winter hibernation and venturing back...

Fraud is now the most prevalent crime in the UK. If you are lucky, the damage is limited to the administrative stress that comes with being a victim, and that...

If you picked up the next morning’s papers, you could be forgiven for not realising that a ‘fiscal event’ had just taken place. That is perhaps unsurprising...

It was a long time in the coming. You might expect a Schools White Paper to be published in the first few months after a change of government; this one has...

I wrote in the Herald and Post recently about the government’s imposed reorganisation of local government across England, including the proposed abolition of...

At the end of last year, I met a group of local hairdressers from Petersfield. They spoke candidly about the impact of the Chancellor’s decision to raise...

There are many ways to describe the current state of youth unemployment, and none of them is good. It now stands at 15.9%, up 1.5 percentage points in a year, a...