Newbury is one of England's most beautiful and affluent areas and was recently ranked one of the best places to live in the UK. Therefore people move to places like Newbury with certain expectations. Young families see the town as a perfect place to raise children. These expectations...

I've never been a deeply ideological person. I think part of this comes from studying a science degree which required an enforced neutrality. Part of it is an understanding that my principals do not dictate the nature of reality. The denial of reality is one of the ugliest aspects of...

In the August riots of 2011 I had to experience something nobody should have to - I watched my home city burn. Politicos of all stripe were quick to condemn, but slow to explain, why the poorest communities in south London woke up one day and decided to destroy themselves....

I'm a big believer of it's not where you're from, it's what you do that matters. Richard Benyon is one of the richest landowners in Berkshire, the great, great, great grandson of a former Prime Minister Lord Salisbury and lives in a Tudor Mansion. He is firmly in the 1%...

What's next for Cruddas? I'm no criminal lawyer but it makes one wonder if soliciting donations from a rich foreign investor with the promise of influencing government policy is illegal. I would probably think it is, even if the he in question was 'just bragging' which is the current line...

Whenever I start a campaign I ask myself a simple question - what does this mean to the man in the pub? The sense that a cause must be made relevant to others is often somehow lost by the policy wonks of Westminster. The latest casualty of this phenomenon is...