The workplace is back like never before. With 831,000 people entering the Tube network on the first Monday of September – the highest level since March 2020 – many employers have no doubt used the end of summer and decline…

Jane Austen once wrote that “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in  possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” Well, a more recent universal truth is that  a bank holiday without…

The power of education should be obvious. In developing countries, getting all children, especially girls, into primary and secondary education is a key category for a country’s social progress. Yet, where education has long been universally available, it is too easily…

The 2021 local elections already seem like so long ago. Even though they were less than two months ago, their influence and significance appear to have receded into the past. While there is a lot of commentary in the immediate…

Ensuring energy sustainability in the long term is one issue among many that has been utterly  obscured by the combination of COVID and Brexit. Time that could have gone into a debate over how Britain should be powered has instead…

If the last few years of politics proved anything, it is that the most unexpected situations quickly become reality. Few, even Nigel Farage, thought that Brexit would ultimately triumph in 2016. Though Jeremy Corbyn was hugely defeated in 2019, his…

2021 has barely begun and it has already become a year that won’t be easily forgotten. Though a cliche, it is something fundamentally correct. A third national lockdown in the UK. The US Capitol being stormed by Trump supporters refusing…

What are the purposes of exams? They are qualifications associated with a degree of terror and concern. A person imminently sitting such qualifications spends hours revising to try and ensure they know the necessary details to pass with flying colours.…

Press conferences are a staple part of the political cycle. In allowing politicians to make theirarguments, they also provide a space for journalist scrutiny to take place. A speech is given,questions follow and hopefully, the audience turns off the press…

The UK has entered a state of Stockholm syndrome. According to Google, this refers to when ‘hostages bond with their captors’ after facing abuse. The public has been quite literally in a state of captivity for months. Told to remain…