The Government’s tighter guidance on smartphones is welcome, if long overdue, but giving Ofsted the power to inspect policies on phone use is the wrong approach.

The Education Secretary appeared to miss the point of my question. Though I do welcome the government’s expansion of free school meals, I was asking about smartphones in schools and the knock-on impact their presence have on teachers. It is clear too much admin and poor pay are driving teachers out of the profession. But so too is pupil behaviour and it is evident that this improves markedly once phones are out of schools. This week, the Government announced Ofsted would have

Our water industry is fundamentally broken, yet the Government’s new Water White Paper dodges the work needed to repair it. People in South Devon are fed up with our environment being ravaged by corporate greed. In 2024, South West Water pumped raw sewage into the Harbourne River via the Harbertonford Wastewater Treatment works for over 3,500 hours – that’s the equivalent of 40% of the year! This same overflow has been activated since 11th January. It is a disgrace. The situa

Allies do not attack one another: militarily or economically. In just a few days, Starmer’s US policy has been ripped apart. He now needs to stand up, not stand back. Trump is punishing the UK and NATO allies just for doing the right, sane thing. Under a 1951 agreement, the US already enjoys sweeping military access in Greenland and can increase its presence almost at will. Evidence also shows Russian and Chinese ships are more prevalent on the Alaska side of America’s coast,

The chances are, you would be happy to let your 8-year-old watch Frozen or your 13-year-old watch The Hunger Games, but you would probably draw the line at violent films like Pulp Fiction or Evil Dead. So, why should social media be different? The question is obvious when you think about it. Yet successive governments have turned a blind eye as platforms that are designed to be addictive mine our children’s data, while exposing them to harmful content. It is terrifying

Steve Darling MP, our spokesperson for Work and Pensions, has written to the Secretary of State highlighting the injustice faced by women born in the 1950s, following the WASPI out-of-court settlement on 2 December 2025. The letter calls for a full review of the evidence relating to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman’s investigation and urges the Government to reconsider compensation for affected women. It acknowledges that the initial decision not to compensate W