News & Insight

11 October 2013

In July this year, the government dismayed medical professionals and the wider public health community by refusing to bring in legislation to require the standardised packaging of cigarettes and tobacco products. In a written statement sneaked out on the last...

11 October 2013

Westminster was all ahoo as all the three main political parties shuffled their ministerial pack. Who's up? Who's down? Who's out? And what did we learn? In the first of a new weekly series, Richard Speight looks back at the 5...

10 October 2013

There is something about defence which robs David Cameron of his surety of touch. Whether it’s over negotiating defence cuts with a party seething at the scale of reductions made to the defence establishment and redundancies of servicemen and women; through...

10 October 2013

Northern Ireland, as well as being an extraordinarily beautiful part of the world, is a place that stirs up all manner of emotions in many of us. Cast-iron preconceptions of its politics and culture are common among those who have...

9 October 2013

It’s hard to believe that Britain’s economy is on the mend when living standards are falling for millions of people on middle and lower incomes. And it’s even harder to feel like you have a decent standard of living when...