Articles for the Herald and Post

Controversy around the European Convention on Human Rights is not wholly new. I well recall the issue of prisoners’ votes in 2011, shortly after I began as an...

T Levels recently marked their fifth birthday, and last week’s ‘T Levels Week’ gave us the perfect opportunity to shout about the benefits of this important...

Every Wednesday morning, a team of local support and wellbeing groups gather at Alton Assembly Rooms for ‘Health on the High Street’ - an initiative run by...

When on the eve of Labour Party conference, the Prime Minister announced his plan for Digital ID Cards, I knew my email inbox would quickly swell. Swell it did...

While much of the media attention last week was focused on the pomp and pageantry of Donald Trump’s state visit, there was also a £31 billion agreement to...

Last month, newspapers and social media were filled with images of young people celebrating exam results and looking ahead to their next steps, whether...

“So, you just need to hold the hazel branch and then pull the blade down firmly, and make sure you don’t take your fingers off!” To give you some context, I was...

Over the summer, we got the latest stats on fraud: a 31% increase, to the highest estimated number of incidents since it was first included in the Crime Survey...

August may be peak month for holidays, but for schools and colleges it also means results for A Levels, GCSEs, BTECs and more. And for hundreds of thousands of...