PHILIP JOHNSTON | Rarely has a piece of legislation generated so much debate, inspired such anxiety and raised so many concerns before it has been fully implemented than the Licensing Act 2003.
PETER WILBY | Whenever I hear ministers talking about ‘the new localism’ and the importance of devolving power, I am reminded of St Augustine’s prayer: ‘Oh, Lord, make me good, but not just yet.’
From time to time, evidence of invisible people and invisible jobs appear on the government’s radar screen: when the Census didn’t make sense, when cockle- pickers died in Morecambe Bay....
