Multi-millionaire landlord and side-hustle Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has cut National Insurance by 2% by way of compensation for the cost of, well, bleedin’ everything. That’s a whopping £8 a week for someone on average UK wage, while those earning less than £15,000 have found themselves with an extra £1.63 a week. Oh wondrous, magnanimous overlord! …
The UK parliament has heard findings that levelling up — arguably the Conservatives’ flagship policy agenda — is beset by critical delays. In a report published on March 15, the public accounts committee, parliament’s expenditure watchdog, has said that, as of September 2023, local authorities had spent only £1.24 billion of the £10.47 billion the …
Recently the BBC slashed its budget for local radio. Yet again. When it comes to cuts, regional broadcasters have become an easy target. Britain’s regional media is in a sickly state. Decades of low investment mean many people don’t see its value. A vicious cycle has been created. The more cuts there are the less …
The plight of the Conservative Party increasingly resembles that of the hapless cartoon character Wile E. Coyote. Just like him, the Tories keep devising cunning new plans to arrest the remorseless progress of Road Runner Keir Starmer. But we all know the Acme anvil they have just suspended from a rocket-powered kite is about 10 …
The UK’s media regulator has found GB News guilty of breaching the UK’s ‘due impartiality’ code in five separate programmes. This brings the total violations for the news channel to 12 in the last 18 months, with eight investigations underway. Despite repeated infringements, Ofcom has not sanctioned the channel or threatened to revoke its broadcast …
Almost 10 years ago the then Chancellor coined the term ‘Northern Powerhouse’. When Boris Johnson became Prime Minister and replaced it with ‘Levelling Up’ many here asked — isn’t that a downgrade? After all, the 2010 Coalition Government had not got off to an auspicious start. We lost our regional development agency, One North East, …
Back in the days when I covered Westminster for The Journal, Budget Day was by far the most challenging event in the political calendar, requiring me and the rest of the team to put together a front page splash, an inside double-page spread and a 16-page pullout within a few hours of the Chancellor sitting …
I don’t see myself as a particularly adventurous traveller. I’ve only ever been to European countries (and North America), didn’t have a gap year and am not one of the one in eight British people who has apparently seriously contemplated living abroad. However, I do see travel as representing freedom in a way — the …
“Having listened to representations I have decided now is not the time to abolish the Household Support Fund… we will therefore continue it at current levels for another six months,” proclaimed the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, in his budget statement. Cue relief from those making such representations — 90 Parliamentarians from across the political divide, local …
Today (March 13) is the 40th anniversary of No Smoking Day — an event which has seen many quit down through the years and kickstarted a national movement to end the death and disease from smoking. It’s a timely occasion for our campaign Fresh and Balance to be in Parliament for an event by the …
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