Every worker in Britain will require a new government-issued digital ID card to stop illegal immigrants from “slipping into the shadow economy” and driving down wages, Sir Keir Starmer has announced.

Columns like the ‘Doomslayer’ series by Marion Tupy, and similar ‘rational optimism’ projects such as Steven Pinker’s ‘Enlightenment Now’ or Matt Ridley’s ‘The Rational Optimist’ are explicitly designed to counterbalance the daily flood of negative news.

Millions of people face a three-week wait for bin collections as councils across England move to longer gaps between taking away rubbish.

There may be several interlocking reasons why UK women are having fewer babies, many of which apply across Western Europe, though the severity and mix differs by country.

Though meteorites can fall anywhere on Earth, the Sahara has become a prime area for their discovery, partly because the climate is favourable for their preservation but also because they are relatively easy to spot against the sand.

The UK has inherited too much process-driven regulation from the EU, which tends to apply the precautionary principle - regulate early and heavily if there’s even a theoretical risk - even before clear evidence of harm.

Public sector pensions should be reformed. Not just because of the unfunded off-balance sheet £1.4 trillion liability, but because they are fundamentally unfair.

Those who say our sense of community has gone should take a look at rural England.

Gatwick airport’s £2.2bn second runway plan has been given the go-ahead by the transport secretary, Heidi Alexander.

The future is always a mix of gains and losses, and for the UK there are some fairly clear trajectories where life is likely to get better, but also areas where challenges will deepen.

Partly we think this is making the same mistake everyone did about university. Graduates make more money than non-graduates.

Yes, yes, of course, George’s career is one of speaking truth to power etc.