Author Archives: Daniel Singleton

It seems that we increasingly lurk from one crisis to another. The horrors of the last week in the Middle East can stir our emotions in many ways and it is right that we should be attentive to the suffering of others wherever they are. […]

As we move away from the COVID crisis and lockdown seems an ever distant memory, we can find ourselves looking back at what we had to do with a certain bemusement. Did we really huddle outside around fires in our gardens with friends, or on […]

It was my birthday recently and, strangely, I was looking forward to the day. Growing up, birthdays were not a big thing. The Singletons made more of Christmas, which of course is a birthday of sorts but at Christmas everybody gets to exchange gifts. Christmas […]

As Rishi Sunak reaches 100 days in office, I wanted to take the opportunity to revisit the Ten for Number 10 list I put together when he initially took office. In my previous blog, I expanded on 5 of the points (coloured in grey below), […]

The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Left Behind Neighbourhoods recently held an inquiry into levelling up, giving contributors an opportunity to assess the extent to which the government’s Levelling Up White Paper aligns with the needs and aspirations of people living in ‘left behind’ neighbourhoods across […]

Much of the narrative around the cost-of-living crisis has focused on how we will all feel the effects of this season. There is no doubt that the poorest will be affected the worst, but the expectation is that those who would normally consider themselves ‘comfortable’ […]

When Rishi Sunak was asked to become Prime Minister two weeks ago, I tweeted 10 ideas the new government1 should consider as they take office, which are set out in the table below. We’ll be exploring some of these ideas more closely in future blogs […]

On Tuesday morning, Rishi Sunak was appointed as Prime Minister. In doing so, he becomes both the first person of Asian origin and the first person of faith from a non-Christian tradition to do so.1  As many have pointed out over the last few days, […]

As tributes and commemorations pour in, to mark the passing of Queen Elizabeth II, we have an important opportunity to pause and reflect. Indeed, the British weather seems to have set the tone of sober greyness, with rain showers lingering on the horizon, just as […]

What a week we’ve just come through! Just a few days ago, I wouldn’t have even entertained the idea that I would be struggling to find out who the ministers are in the government departments we work closest with—that being Health and Social Care and […]