As we await the release of the National Cancer Plan, Liver Cancer Awareness Month is a stark reminder of the urgent need to ...

Last week I attended the UK government’s first ever regional investment summit in Birmingham. Led by West Midlands mayor ...

Last week, the Home Office published its annual statistics detailing the number of scientific experiments involving animals ...

When a government spends more than it collects, it runs an annual budget deficit. This is formally known as the Public Sector Net Cash Requirement. The accumulation of previous annual budget deficits, ...

Do the public support the monarchy? The argument that the UK should abolish the monarchy and become a republic remains at the fringes of mainstream political debate. The British monarchy as an ...

The BBC Charter sets out its four public purposes. The first of these is “to provide impartial news and information to help people understand and engage with the world around them.” In keeping with ...

What is the law on cannabis in the UK? Cannabis remains illegal to possess, distribute, sell or grow in the UK. Cannabis is classified as a class B drug. As such, any person who is caught with ...

Print media in the UK are not subject to any specific statutory controls on their content and activities, other than the general criminal and civil law. In this regard, newspapers and magazines, are ...

When was the death penalty abolished in the UK? Capital punishment is the use of the death penalty by the state. It was first introduced in the UK in the 1500s, with eight capital crimes being ...

“Right to Buy” is a scheme under which longstanding local authority tenants are entitled to purchase their homes at a heavily discounted price. To be eligible to participate in a ‘right to buy’ scheme ...

Are the British police armed? The British police are famed across the world for being ‘unarmed’ – but this is a misnomer. A proportion of the UK police are armed. Out of a total police force in ...

High streets traditionally embodied the historical, cultural, and economic hub of British communities. Yet increasing, numbers of town centres are now characterised by boarded-up windows, derelict ...