‘To halve violence against women and girls by a decade’ forms a critical part of the fifth and final mission of this Labour government, coined by the rather austere objective: ‘Take back our streets’. Not only does this depend on a second term to be realised, but it is a
From Monday to Wednesday this week, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage spoke at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) Forum. In normal times a gathering of the terminally online modern political right here in London with speakers like Jordan Peterson, Douglas Murray, and Louis Mosley (before you ask, yes, he
If this government wants us to know one thing about its objectives at the moment, it is that economic growth is their priority. From infrastructure investment, to planning reform and even pensions, growth is the thread running through all recent government announcements. Whether or not you agree with every decision,
Vision without Funding is Hallucination. Most ambitions are limited by resources; difficult choices and compromises need to me made. By way of example, the UK has an outstanding Fire Brigade, but since most of the UK population will never directly require their services, the level of funding required is subject
Last month, tech giants in the United States (US) were dealt a blow of $1 trillion by DeepSeek, a relatively unknown artificial intelligence (AI) startup from the People’s Republic of China (PRC). NVidia, a US company at the forefront of the AI revolution, lost over $600 billion in market value
With Trump back in the White House, a destructive war raging between Russia and Ukraine, economic stagnation across much of the EU, the cost-of-living crisis pummeling European electorates, and social democrats struggling in the face of a populist far right resurgence, there are reasons to be downbeat about the future
In late 2023, there was an internal debate within the Labour Party as to whether to drop the term “life sciences” from its literature. Insights from a leading polling company were sent to advisors detailing a lack of public understanding of what the term means, how the industry is determined,
“Once we cut defence expenditure to the extent where our security is imperilled, we have no houses, we have no hospitals, we have no schools. We have a heap of cinders” – Denis Healey MP, Secretary of State for Defence 1964 to 1970 These are the words of Labour’s
I joined the Royal Air Force in the final decade of the Cold War. At that time, we lived under the omnipresent threat of war, with the UK Armed Forces postured in Germany to repel the Soviet hordes. However, NATO prevailed, the dark clouds of imminent conflict dissipated, and the
In 1989, the Labour Government in New Zealand transformed the way decisions were made about children and young people who were victims of abuse and neglect. Today, New Zealand has one of the lowest rates of children in care and more children living safely within their family. UK Labour’s landmark
