I was speaking at an EIS conference last Saturday on the challenges facing our democracy. It prompted me to examine the evidence more close...

 Following the publication of its new Defence Strategy, the UK Government has now released its Defence Industrial Strategy , titled 'Mak...

 I have been working with the Tax Justice Scotland campaign on the case for Council Tax reform. This week, we have published a briefing th...

  The much-trailed UK Strategic Defence Review (SDR) was  published  yesterday. It was timely for me as I was participating in a European se...

The elections in England ought to be a wake-up call to political parties, particularly about the disillusionment many voters feel about our ...

Benjamin Franklin famously said that ‘nothing is certain except death and taxes’. Well, it used to be pretty certain that this generation wo...

I thought I wouldn’t need to write about PPP ever  again . However, as the Chancellor is considering private finance for new infrastructure...