A bonfire of EU red tape, or a damp squib? The truth about regulatory reform.

A bonfire of EU red tape, or a damp squib? The truth about regulatory reform.

by | 30 May 2021 | Communications, Competition, consumer protection and investing, Economy, Employment, European Union, Politics, Public Sector, Whitehouse News

The Queen’s Speech on 11th March announced  measures to “improve regulation” and the Treasury announced what it described as “a bonfire of EU red tape”. This has echoes of a remarkably similar promise from David Cameron to have a “bonfire...

Assisted Dying – are the claimed safeguards sufficient?

by | 28 May 2021 | Civil liberties, Health, Health and Social care, Human rights and equality, Justice, Politics, Public Sector, Welfare, Whitehouse News

The campaign to legalise assisted dying continues apace, with a new Bill to change the law recently introduced into the House of Lords where it will shortly be debated. The Assisted Dying Bill has been introduced by Baroness Meacher who will no doubt argue that if...
A bonfire of EU red tape, or a damp squib? The truth about regulatory reform.

Free speech is fundamental to a free society.

by | 22 May 2021 | Civil liberties, Education & Children's Services, Human rights and equality, Justice, Politics, Public Sector, Third Sector, Whitehouse News

Without free speech, there can be no free exchange of ideas, no free society and no effective democracy. Even, or perhaps especially, during the pandemic there has been robust public discourse about the scale and impact of the threat to life and to the economy that...