As someone who has campaigned on this blog for better child protection procedures and for tougher sanctions against abusers, I can categorically state that one of the most important challenges facing policy-makers is how to protect children. The NSPCC...

It is devastating to hear the news that the Corus plant in Redcar is going to be ‘mothballed’, perhaps signalling the death knell to the area’s steel industry and highlighting what a sorry state the economy, and industry in general, is in in this...

John McCain just admitted on BBC newsnight that during the Obama Afghan surge ‘casualties will rise.’ This is just not acceptable. Enough of our young kids who are serving in the army have returned in coffins. No, it’s time to withdraw British troops...

Here’s some good news. Local resident Alan Macnab, concerned about the lack of sporting provision in Darlington, has suggested setting up a Sports Council. That certainly gets a thumbs up from this blog. This letter was published in the Northern Echo...

Let’s mark the anniversary of Meehan, Shoesmith and Santry – Leader of Haringey Council, its Director of Children’s Services, and its Children’s Services Cabinet Member – having been forced to go following a scathing independent report into the murder...