The Big Ask

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Many of our readers will be following with interest the growing list of demands from Scotland's First Minister. Showing my heritage, how long before Home Rule for Yorkshire??

The Phoney War ends?

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A few months after UK Government elections, then the more recent Welsh , Northern Ireland and Scottish devolved Government elections, alongside major changes in local Government in England, we are now beginning to see the real challenges ahead.

Summer time Reflections

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Many colleagues are on holiday at this time, and others about to go. So apart from the feeding frenzy that is the media turning on itself, and the rare opportunity for politicians to take the moral high ground.