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This week’s announcement about so called mickey mouse degrees is, for me, ironic. I had written a column for this week’s Kidderminster Shuttle about exactly...

You can tell an election is coming up. Kier Starmer has announced his 6 priorities for the next Labour government. There will be a lot of opportunities for...

Last week saw the surprise defection of the MP for Dover. Natalie Elphicke had been elected as the MP back in 2019, as the Conservative candidate. After...

I get a lot of emails. They cover a variety of topics, but recently, many from pensioners worried about tax. I couldn’t understand why this had come about...

This week, we held a general debate on assisted dying. This has always been an emotive issue and it came due to 200,000 people signing the petition set up by...

Mark has submitted a response to the public consultation on the proposed full planning application for the Snipes development. The full letter can be found...

This week is the first full week of the new tax year, bringing in a 2% cut in national insurance contributions for working aged people, whilst pensioners see an...

In under a month’s time, we have elections. Not the expected general election scheduled for some time before the end of January next year, but Kidderminster...

Last week’s budget came and went, with lots of political point scoring. And then along came a new news item and the world moved on. Budgets are important, even...