Month: November 2016 Articles

Last week British members of parliament visited a Christian suburb of Mosul where Iraqi officers told us of the unprecedented unity between the Iraqi and Kurdish armies which once fought each other but are now closing on the common enemy of the Islamic State. That...

'Some will label me a quitter, or, no doubt, worse. Those are labels with which I can live. The label Conservative no longer is.' – This was the widely reported parting shot of Conservative member of parliament, Stephen Phillips as he resigned his ultra-safe seat. My...

The modern world is not a very fun place to be a moderniser. But after a decade of frustration, despair and defeat, those of us on the British centre left should at least have been more emotionally prepared than most for the bonfire of optimism that 2016 has brought...

No new parent is ever fully ready for the challenges of bringing up a baby. But parents of premature babies face overwhelming stress and pressure from an underfunded neonatal care service and outdated employment laws that do not recognise their real needs. There is a...