WITH the pandemic more than a year ago now, Weston is rebounding steadily. Our unemployment is below the national average, and we’re becoming an employment centre in our own right as more people travel into town to work each morning, rather than heading off to Bristol. But all those extra…
I’m honoured to be this month’s ‘Parliamentary TechChampion’, because of the role technology can play in sharpening competition to create big, powerful citizen-consumers so markets work for people rather than the other way round. This is a key theme in my Government-commissioned report on Competition Policy, Power to the People…
WESTON has never had a steelworks or a power station, and the closest we’ve come to an oil refinery was the ‘See Monster’ retired oil rig at the Tropicana last year. But, as a seaside town, we’re just as vulnerable to the rising sea levels and global warming which their carbon…
This essay is taken from King College London’s Essays on Equality: The politics of childcare. More info here We have to find and solve the causes of the UK’s internationally high childcare costs, so parents can find high-quality, safe and affordable care The UK’s childcare problem is wearily familiar to everyone.…