Articles for the Herald and Post

This week marked two important milestones for the new Labour Government. It was 100 days since Andy Burnham entered Downing Street and the first Budget...

It is just a few months since families across East Hampshire were celebrating their GCSE and A-level results. Our local schools include some of the best in the...

Imagine a warehouse full of valuable products where, every day, fleets of unmarked vans pull up outside. Their drivers let themselves in, load up everything on...

Up to the 19th century, political ‘parties’ were really just groups just of politicians, or factions you might say, within Parliament. Then the 1832 Reform Act...

Dementia is a set of symptoms caused by a disease damaging nerve cells in the brain. The symptoms vary by the type of dementia (such as Alzheimer’s or vascular...

During the summer, the Government published its latest National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF). For most people, this will have passed them by – admittedly...

Civil servants at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government must have had steam coming out of their ears last week, with two major announcements...

Sometimes the most innocuous sounding items on the parliamentary order paper turn out to be the most significant. On Monday, the House of Commons was due to...

One of the biggest demographic changes of recent years has received surprisingly little attention, yet it is likely to shape many areas of policy in the years...