Ultimately, the success or failure of any media organisation — or individual journalist — depends on trust. Do you, as the reader, listener, or viewer, trust the information you are being fed, along with the practices being used to obtain and present that information? If the answer is no, then all credibility is lost, and …
How do you get what you want? You ask for it. It’s time that as a region we got better at that, and doing it in a unified way. This is, afterall, the region which gave the world the phrase ‘Shy Bairns Get Nowt’. We ought to be better at asking for things and making …
In my last column, I wrote that if anything has come to define the relative failure of the Government’s attempts to address the North-South divide over the past 14 years, it is surely the fiasco of HS2. A project that was supposed to link London with the North at a total cost of £37.5bn is …
It can feel like we’re bombarded with negativity living in the North East as figure after figure shows depressing stats about the state of child poverty in the region, our health and our economy. But one thing that isn’t often made clear in the relentlessness of the statistics is that political choices have created this …
Birmingham City Council was voting through a raft of budget cuts amounting to £149m on Tuesday, March 5. Along with £500m of asset sales, this amounts to what my colleagues and I, at the Audit Reform Lab, think will be the biggest cuts any local authority has ever made. The proposals will devastate crucial statutory …
I started researching and writing my first book, Good Girl Deprogramming, in 2019 after 20 years as an organisational psychologist (a psychologist for businesses and their people). I’d seen many ways in which women struggled to find their place, assert their authority, and be recognised for their expertise — I saw it too frequently and …
Is it just me, or has anybody else noticed an apparent rise in the number of snarling and snapping dogs? Oh, and more dog poo on the pavement. More on the poo later, but let us turn first to the snarlers and snappers. Well, it turns out I wasn’t imagining it at all. Vets even …
October 1963. The Beatles have been at number one for six weeks with She Loves You. Meanwhile, in 10 Downing Street, a report of huge significance lands on the desk of the new Conservative prime minister, Alec Douglas-Home — the Robbins Report on the future of higher education. At a time when only 5% of …
The UK government is consulting on plans to stop publishing vital statistics from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on deaths of homeless people. This is part of a wider review of mortality statistics including deaths in care homes and winter mortality. Since 2018, the ONS in England and Wales and the National Records for …
Next week’s Budget is likely to be the final set piece fiscal event before the next General Election. The Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will stand at the Despatch Box after weeks of speculation that he will use what headroom he has to fund tax cuts. At November’s Autumn Statement, Hunt’s big headline was a cut to …
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