Budget fiasco: That the whole of Wednesday’s Budget was erroneously published by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) an hour before chancellor Rachel Reeves (pictured) stood up to give her spee

“All government leaders know what to do. They just don’t know how to get re-elected if they do it.” Jean-Claude Juncker, the former president of the European Commission, said little of note in his pol

The last word

→ Rising rough sleeping has made street homelessness more visible. Tent encampments are now commonplace in our cities. The camp at Adelphi Terrace beside the Grade-II listed Adelphi Theatre on the Str

An alternative to the current system of failing water companies

“Is Britain having a collective nervous breakdown?” asks Camilla Cavendish in the Financial Times. Almost two-thirds of voters think we are heading in the wrong direction, while our government has “go