There is something slightly strange about being told that it is going to reach 27°C when September is almost over. By this point in the year, we have usually started thinking about darker evenings, jumpers, heating bills and whether it is too early to put the winter duvet back on the bed. The summer clothes have often been pushed towards the back of the wardrobe, the barbecue has been cleaned […]

Prime Minister Andy Burnham has admitted his generation of politicians has been too cowardly to fix social care, calling the current system an indictment of political leadership. Speaking at the Labour conference, Mr Burnham reflected on his twenty-five years in politics and the care given to his father, who died earlier this month. He pledged to fight for a better care system, warning conditions are worse today than when he […]

There was a time when the electricity going off was not an unusual event. It might happen during a storm, after some problem with the local supply or simply for reasons that nobody in the house completely understood. One minute you would be watching television, making a cup of tea or doing something perfectly ordinary, and the next the entire house would suddenly go quiet. For Gen X, a power […]