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A future Labour government must shake-up skills on the scale the last transformed the NHS ‘We toured the country to talk about immigration and came back talking about skills’, shadow Brexit secretary Keir Starmer tells this magazine (page 20) in his exclusive...

The rapid advancement of technology in all areas of life and work is set to destabilise everything from our patterns of consumption and ownership to the ways in which we govern and regulate ourselves. Whether we are now facing the fourth or fifth industrial...

What has science ever done for us? That was one of the questions I raised yesterday in my debate on the role of the Treasury in supporting science in the United Kingdom. Well, what has it done for us? Why do we need to use public funds, taxpayers’ money, to support...

About a decade ago, a Labour member of parliament asked me, ‘What became of Bryan Gould?’ Being too literal, I replied, ‘Is he not an academic in New Zealand?’ The MP looked at me disappointedly, as I had missed the contemporary political point that he was alluding to...