Refugee groups condemn Tory plan to remove judges from asylum appeals Conservatives accused of attack on ‘crucial safeguards’ and of fostering ‘climate of hostility’ towards judiciary The Guardian - UK · Jun 16
‘Unfair and demoralising’: Thousands of graduates earning less than £12.71 an hour five years after leaving university Just over half of graduates are in full-time work 15 months after graduation The Independent UK · Jun 9
Rise of the ‘sickfluencers’: Thousands share tips online to trick benefits system, report finds Think tank Policy Exchange said online coaching will place pressure on benefits system and fuel Britain’s unemployment crisis Evening Standard · Mar 24
Send provision leaving deprived areas of England ‘trailing behind’, report finds Ex-education secretaries urge change as data shows special educational needs spending rising fastest in wealthy areas The Guardian - UK · Feb 11
Starmer considering sending military to Greenland as Trump ratchets up rhetoric The potential for British troops in the Danish territory comes days after the PM pledged boots on the ground in Ukraine The Independent UK · Jan 11
Extra defence spending is being lost on MoD’s overdraft, warns former RAF chief In a damning report for the thinktank Policy Exchange, retired Air Marshall Edward Stringer says increased defence spending is not preventing the UK’s military from shrinking The Independent UK · Jan 10
Dentists to be paid more to see urgent patients under new reforms for sector It comes as a report suggests dental vouchers worth £150 a year should be introduced in a bid to ‘end the postcode lottery’ of care. Evening Standard · Dec 16, 2025
Major new dentistry plan vows to ‘end the postcode lottery’ for treatment The changes are anticipated to benefit millions of patients The Independent UK · Dec 15, 2025
New definition of anti-Muslim hate will lead to two-tier protection – think tank The Government is currently considering recommendations from a working group on the definition. Evening Standard · Oct 20, 2025
Warning! The rightwing junktanks behind the Tories’ worst disasters still have the keys to No 10 Who is running the government’s ‘growth school’ for civil servants? The answer surpassed my worst fears, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot The Guardian - UK · Sep 11, 2025
Reform say they will axe Northern Powerhouse Rail if they get into power Mr Tice made his comments in a forward to a report by centre-right think tank Policy Exchange The Independent UK · Sep 8, 2025
UK to make it harder for refugees to bring family members to country Home secretary to announce overhaul of family reunion policy in attempt to quell fractious immigration debate The Guardian - UK · Aug 31, 2025
Claims NI peace deal stops UK leaving ECHR ‘entirely groundless’ – think tank The Policy Exchange claims public debate on human rights law reform had been ‘distorted’. The Independent UK · Aug 31, 2025
Protesters target think tank over role in making UK more 'authoritarian' A Westminster-based think tank has been targeted by protesters over its alleged role in making the UK "increasingly authoritarian"… The National (Scotland) · Aug 29, 2025
The Independent UK · Aug 27, 2025 Young people ‘overdiagnosed’ with mental health conditions, Hunt says Definitions of mental ill health and neurodivergence have been expanded, leading to overwhelm in the system, according to a new report
Evening Standard · Aug 27, 2025 Young people being ‘overdiagnosed’ with mental ill health – Hunt The former health secretary argued that society has ‘lost sight of the fundamental reality that child development is a messy and uneven process’.
The Guardian - UK · Aug 27, 2025 Overdiagnosis of children overlooks that growing up is ‘messy and uneven’, says Jeremy Hunt Former health secretary wants to see an overhaul of special educational needs and disabilities system in England
Evening Standard · Aug 1, 2025 OPINION - I'm a former Detective Chief Inspector. This is what's going wrong at The Met You must have heard this week’s horrifying new stats by now. Knife attacks in London have risen by 86 per cent in a decade. As a former Detective Chief Inspector at The Met, I am well placed to help explain how we’ve witnessed such a catastrophic increase.
Evening Standard · Jul 31, 2025 OPINION - The latest sign of Broken Britain? The mass closure of police stations The message from the Met’s planned closure of half its police stations is clear: do not try and see the police in the one place where you might think they’d be available, in an actual police station. Just call them instead. And if you are rash enough to be mugged…
Evening Standard · Jul 30, 2025 OPINION - When Mayfair is a cesspit of crime, you have to ask is anywhere in this city safe? The crime statistics are piling up, and all of them are scary. Knife crime in London, according to this paper’s correspondent, Ross Lydall, is up nearly ten per cent since last year: London now accounts for roughly one in three knife attacks in England and Wales.
The Independent UK · Jul 30, 2025 Mapped: London’s knife crime hotspots revealed The West End is the capital’s knife crime hotspot, accounting for one in every 15 knife attacks in London, report says
Evening Standard · Jul 30, 2025 Knife crime soars by 86% in London in a decade - with 20 West End streets revealed as the epicentre Warning of knife crime ‘epidemic’ as offences soar 60% in last three years- as tributes paid to father and son killed in ‘targeted’ attack
The Independent UK · Jul 15, 2025 Voices: Is it time to give up on the NHS, our national religion? COMMENT: The former health secretary Sajid Javid says we should charge £20 for GP appointments and replace the health service with a Dutch-style social insurance system – just as Wes Streeting warns the doctors that they are paving the way for Nigel Farage to do just that, writes John Rentoul
Evening Standard · Jul 1, 2025 Overseas students using higher education as ‘backdoor’ to stay in UK – report The graduate visa route should be scrapped for all students other than those on postgraduate research degrees, think tank says.
Evening Standard · Apr 4, 2025 Fact check: How many schools ban mobile phones? With phones in schools under the spotlight following the Netflix drama Adolescence and an exchange at PMQs, Full Fact looks at what the data tells us.