Articles for the Herald and Post

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...

I wrote here recently about the government’s imposed reorganisation of local government across England, including the proposed abolition of our District and...

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...

Local government reorganisation may not sound like the most exciting topic. But this matters. The outcome will affect many things from how much council tax you...

Only a few weeks ago, the Prime Minister said he was “personally” opposed to a ban on social media for under 16s. On Monday I listened to the Technology...

On Budget day, many MPs were quick to celebrate the Chancellor’s announcement of a “permanently lower tax rates for retail, hospitality, and leisure properties”...

If you were a viewer of The West Wing, you may recall the phrase ‘Take out the trash day’. It’s a day when either the news is so dominated by one story that...