Christian Doherty

Freelance journalist

Recent articles

Councils ‘key to unleashing quarter of a trillion in growth’

English councils hold the key to unlocking potential growth of £276bn if they are allowed genuine... Read more
Tony Blair Institute calls for Spending Review re-think to improve performance

Improving the “bureaucratic and labour-intensive” Spending Review process could lead to more... Read more
Get worklessness strategy right or risk making problem worse – Localis

The government’s employment support shake-up must take complex regional variations in capacity and... Read more
Justice system ‘ill-equipped’ to deal with UK disorder

Decade of austerity presents new government with serious challenges to process and address disorder.
SoS showed ‘reckless abandon’ in approving solar farm plan

Council criticises Milliband’s decision to wave through £600m solar project with costs landing... Read more
Conservative thinktank urges Child Benefit cap scrap

Right-leaning thinktank backs calls to remove two-child benefit gap as part of ‘new deal for... Read more
NHS faces ‘rocky path’ to recovery

The latest NHS statistics have prompted mixed reaction following their publication this week.
Think different to stop presenteeism costing billions in lost productivity – thinktank

IPPR reveals that the hidden impact of poorly workers to industry and business dwarfs costs of... Read more
Treasury cancels £1bn AI investment

AI and supercomputer projects worth over £1bn cancelled. “If we can’t afford it, we can’t do it”.
Switch to five year spending reviews – IfG

Think-tank says Reeves’ spending reforms welcome, but more must be done to encourage stability and... Read more

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