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Elements of the press would have you believe that now really is the winter of our discontent. Barely a week goes by without reports of union barons planning strikes aimed at bringing the country to its knees. Some have suggested that stike laws need to be tightened...

In the current debate about the schools exam system, the discussion has been based on the type of examination system that kids leaving school at 16 should undertake. While this is an important issue it fails to focus on the type of knowledge we would like our children...

In 1879, in a legal dispute between neighbours, a judge said ‘What would be a nuisance in Belgrave Square would not necessarily be so in Bermondsey’. This pre-dated the first Planning Act by decades, but it outlined two still-relevant principles for control of...

The forecast for Labour's conference is set fair in a manner unimaginable at the start of the year, amid the long and sometimes dark transition from one leader to another. The leadership’s opponents inside the party have drifted away and his opponents beyond it are in...