Banker bashing has become one of the most popular sports of recent times, politicians of all colours and hue strive to be identified with ‘good’ industries, almost any industry, rather Read more

‘Tories set to disband in Scotland‘ is the dramatic headline in the Sunday Telegraph, the paper warns that ‘Cameron faces constitutional crisis with no Scottish MPs’. Dramatic stuff, but really? Read more

Justice Secretary Ken Clarke’s proposals for penal reform have landed him in hot water with some of the self anointed ‘tough on crime’ brigade. In a speech to the Centre Read more

Two weeks ago, I attended the launch of the Big Society Network in Downing Street. It is clear that this is an initiative that is very close to the heart of Read more

Back in March 2010, I argued that the budget delivered by Alistair Darling not only failed to map out a credible plan for Britain to stabilise its national debt but that Read more

As the dust barely settles on one of the most extraordinary chapters in British history, we enter  yet another remarkable political phase as the leaders of the country’s political parties Read more

In one fell swoop of a press release on Thursday afternoon, this Government has abandoned all pretence it has to a human rights legacy. In what appears to be a Read more

As the Argentines rattle the sabre in the South Atlantic –  many of us recall again with pride how, in 1982 a large British task force set out on a Read more

The budget that the Chancellor delivered yesterday has received a mixed and tribal reaction in the press. The truth is that we are weeks away from a general election and Read more