This Tweet includes words that I think to be important from the Irish Taoiseach (prime minister): I think he really does reflect Irish feeling when
Read the full article…

I have written this morning about the costs that will arise as a result of our need to make good on decades of underinvestment in
Read the full article…

This was posted in the Financial Times over the weekend but remains well worth sharing because of its broader significance: Parts of South Africa’s largest city
Read the full article…

As the Observer noted yesterday: Schools are finding beds, providing showers for pupils and washing uniforms as child poverty spirals out of control, headteachers from
Read the full article…

I liked this from Adam Payne at Politics Home this morning: Many Conservative MPs will remember this “bleak” week as the moment when they truly gave
Read the full article…

Angela Rayner has made it clear she wants Diane Abbott back in the Labour fold, with the whip restored. So has Ed Balls. I doubt
Read the full article…

The government has published its new definition of extremism this morning. It says of this: The new definition provides a stricter characterisation that government can
Read the full article…

I accused Rachael Reeves yesterday of finding it ‘really difficult to make any decisions when [she] lacks a moral compass, a political philosophy, and any
Read the full article…

Having waxed almost lyrical on the power of the written word in another post this morning on the power of writing, I am overdue to
Read the full article…