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It’s usually sensible when writing articles for a local publication to remember the old advice that ‘all politics is local’, and therefore to write on local...

I am really pleased to be able to start this edition’s article with some good news. As many will know the Government is setting great store by its Levelling Up...

“The problem with the UK is we don’t make anything anymore”. This is often said by people as a truth and it has somehow become something of a norm to say. Data...

Regular readers will know of my suspicions of populism in politics. Not to be confused with being popular (what politician doesn’t seek to be that?), more the...

As Gloucester put it in Richard lll, it does feel rather that ‘now is the winter of our discontent’. The spectre and presence of strikes have once again reared...

This year, UK Parliament week will run from 14 - 20 November 2022. This is a brilliant opportunity to find out more about what Parliament is and how you can get...

We will all be familiar with the words from the hymn Abide With Me: ‘Change and decay in all around I see, O Thou who changest not abide with me’. Well, we are...

I would like you to share an experience of mine which I hope none of you will ever experience. Picture this: three years ago my eldest daughter, while we were...

I welcomed the shock, horror and outrage that greeted the vicious murder of my colleague David Amess. The response of the public highlighted that, thank God...