Bonfire of rules boost for business
The new year has started with some very promising news. Firstly, the new £2 bus flat fare which will encourage more to use our...
Take five: Sunak’s priorities fall short
A bit late perhaps to discuss New Year resolutions, but I thought we might anyway. The Prime Minister – Rishi Sunak as I write...
NHS too often politicians’ train set
At the roadside, monitoring the traffic speed with a couple of local stalwarts, we fell to discussing this column.
No question, the NHS and Social...
Tories seek poll gains from strikes bill
The Grant Shapps anti-strikes bill published this week sets out to establish minimum service levels to be maintained during future strikes in the public...
It’s time for a rethink on dental care
I spent much of New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day sorting through crates of papers in my new London office that had accumulated...
The PM is right to push on maths
I’m not sure whether it is physically possible for your spirits to soar while your blood runs cold?
If it is then it happened to...
Wages, inflation and productivity…
Happy New Year everyone. I’m hoping for a better one than ’22 and certainly no repetition of our ’21 annus horribilis!
The auguries are quite...
‘My hope is for stability and civility’
MAY I begin by wishing you a very happy and peaceful New Year. I hope you were able to enjoy Christmas despite both the...
Pay offer to nurses is ‘ridiculous’
AFTER another tumultuous year in the political life of the UK, it is good to know that the dreadful handling of the NHS has...
Britain and the great wealth divide
WITH a new year upon us, and at a time when so many are finding their finances stretched to breaking point, two recent news...
