Reducing knife crime in the UK is a complex challenge, but there are several evidence-based approaches that can help. In practice, the most effective strategies could combine enforcement with prevention and community engagement

The COVID-19 lockdowns in the UK were unprecedented in scale and impact. They fundamentally altered public behavior and psychology.

The mania of roadworks and construction projects that bedevil every Spring is partly caused by the desire of local governments to spend their financial budgets rather than have them expire as the financial year ends in early April.

Most legal systems worldwide, including those of the US and EU member states, have well-established statutes of limitations for many criminal and civil matters.

Replacing the UK’s Town and Country Planning Acts with a more liberalised, market-led zoning system would represent a radical shift - probably the biggest planning reform since the 1947 Act itself.

It has been enthralling in a ghoulish way to watch Birmingham descend into a chaos of rat-riddled rubbish.

Spending on people usually commands more attention from the political process than does spending on things.

The Securities and Exchange Commission says insider trading occurs when an investor knows of ‘material nonpublic information’ and then uses that information in violation of a duty to refrain from trading or sharing the knowledge.

The old order has been swept away. Let us try something new.

There are no permanent victories in the battle for liberty and the economic prosperity that it engenders.

We have all encountered the practice of shrinkflation, where producers reduce the size or weight of their product to avoid having to increase its price.

While the UK’s Department of Health campaigns against people becoming fat and urges them to slim down, there is a strong case for slimming down the Department itself.