Tuesday, 3 June 2025
UK Strategic Defence Review in a changing world
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The much-trailed UK Strategic Defence Review (SDR) was published yesterday. It was timely for me as I was participating in a European se...
Thursday, 8 May 2025
Political change has to be more than a slogan
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The elections in England ought to be a wake-up call to political parties, particularly about the disillusionment many voters feel about our ...
Wednesday, 12 March 2025
It's health inequalities stupid!
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Benjamin Franklin famously said that ‘nothing is certain except death and taxes’. Well, it used to be pretty certain that this generation wo...
Wednesday, 12 February 2025
Public Private Partnerships – surely not again!
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I thought I wouldn’t need to write about PPP ever again . However, as the Chancellor is considering private finance for new infrastructure...
Monday, 27 January 2025
ScotRail: public ownership is not enough
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The Herald has been running a series of articles on ScotRail since it was taken into partial public ownership as the ‘operator of last res...
Monday, 9 December 2024
Social Murder?: Austerity and Life Expectancy in the UK
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Life expectancy has increased in the UK more or less constantly for more than a century. Around 2012, this all stopped, and among poorer pop...
Monday, 18 November 2024
Europe after Trump
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I participated in a European foundation workshop last week, which examined the impact of a Trump presidency on Europe. While European leader...
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