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Commuting on the London Underground has always required a certain level of resignation... Listen to this article This week, the Northern line has...
Speaking to Royal Navy officers and industry figures over the past few weeks has been a slightly unsettling experience. Listen to this article Not...
Defence procurement isn’t a sexy subject. It’s a dry landscape of contracts, tenders, and technical specifications. Listen to this article No...
The Spring Statement was a relatively quiet affair compared to previous years and while expected, it has shifted people’s focus toward the Autumn...
Britain is no longer watching the Iran conflict from a safe distance, we are now inside it, just not in the way the public expect. Listen to this...
On 13 March 1996, I was at work at Viewforth in Stirling. Listen to this article The first indication that something significant had happened was the...
A notion has started to take shape in my mind since last Thursday’s arrest of Andrew Mountbatten Windsor at the King’s Sandringham Estate and I...
By EJ Ward This week, the chief constable of West Midlands Police apologised to MPs after admitting he had given incorrect evidence about a decision...
By EJ Ward I am not going to litigate the legality of this raid. Plenty of people with thicker textbooks and louder opinions will do that for months....
By EJ Ward Dry January is back... Every year it arrives with the same earnest intentions and the same faintly puritan edge, as if the only way to...
By EJ Ward Keir Starmer and his government have expressed a commitment to earlier cancer diagnosis and treatment as part of a 10-year NHS reform...
By EJ Ward There is no building in Britain I love more than a pub. Not a grand cathedral or a glistening tower or a parliament stuffed with people...
By EJ Ward The government’s recent pledge to reform foster care in England is, on the surface, a welcome signal of intent. Children’s Minister...
By EJ Ward I know I’m not a typical teenager. At 19 I have my dream job, racing cars, but most young people, my friends and their siblings,...
25 July 2025, 09:52 By EJ Ward It feels like shouting into the void. Only a few weeks ago, I was writing about the plight of the British pub,...
14 July 2025, 10:58 By EJ Ward There’s a new river in Clapham. It wasn’t there yesterday. And it certainly wasn’t on any map. But thanks to...
10 July 2025, 08:34 By EJ Ward There’s a quiet death happening on our high streets—one pub at a time. The latest figures from the British Beer...
6 June 2025, 07:30 By EJ Ward Few services are more critical than energy in keeping our society running. April’s mass blackouts, which affected...
20 February 2025, 07:43 By EJ Ward So, you’ve completed Dry January (well done!), but now you're looking at your bank account and wondering—did...
16 February 2025, 06:30 | Updated: 17 February 2025, 09:36 By EJ Ward A new report from the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has brought renewed...
14 February 2025, 15:03 By EJ Ward A public meeting that ends with councillors in tears and staff needing “wellbeing” leave should be a wake-up...
10 February 2025, 10:00 By EJ Ward Nigel Farage has thrown his weight behind farmers staging a tractor protest outside Parliament on Monday, urging...
6 February 2025, 08:57 Daughter of murdered MP says ‘everyone failed by Prevent’ should get inquiry By EJ Ward The daughter of a murdered MP has...