At times of economic crisis such as, for example, the one in which we live, one of the favourite things for journalists to do is to dredge up from the…

At the time of writing, Liz Truss has been Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for about twenty minutes. So we thought it was high time we wrote to her…

Article by Traverse The same broad consultation principles apply across all sectors, on that we can all agree (alongside Stephen Sedley QC, who coined those Gunning Principles in 1985). But…

Though I am not much of a sportsman (I’m far too introverted for that), one of the sports that I do vaguely follow at the national level is that bastion…

Our cousins over the pond have many funny ideas. They play cricket weirdly in some sort of square formation. They prefer drinking hot drinks made from beans, of all things,…

This week, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Sir Mark Lowcock, gave a speech in Washington DC in which he stated that the international aid…

Twice in the past week, my attention has been drawn by similar issues. The first came in a tweet we received asking about the importance of consultees being able to…

On a fundamental level, consultation is about the acquiring of sufficient information for a decision-maker to be able to make a good decision. It constitutes a clear duty, whether founded…

The World Health Organisation, until recently, was a fairly obscure body for most members of the public. They might have known that it existed but particularly in the developed world…