By Simon Thompson, Chief Executive, Chartered Banker Institute

For several years, there has been growing anxiety around the changing nature of work.

The UK’s public finances are currently facing acute pressure due to the current pandemic and the government’s policy response. These short-term difficulties have negative knock-on effects for a number of existing long-term challenges that UK Exchequer faces.

The 2005 Gambling Act was designed to regulate gambling, in all its forms. But 15 years later, the world has changed, and gambling has changed too: bookies’ shops on the high street are fading, as gambling goes online. And a gambling law written before the first iPhone went on sale is clearly no longer fit for purpose.

In our first UKRI-sponsored Ask the Expert virtual panel event, the SMF brought together three different experts to discuss the future of scientific advice in policymaking.

The Prime Minister wants us to start returning to the office. But the mass homeworking experiment has been a success for many firms. Offices will need to evolve as a result.

Rishi Sunak's stamp duty holiday is risky and expensive. Here are three housing measures he could have announced instead.

In Britain, racial discrimination starts early. Black children are more likely than white peers to be excluded from school and face in-class discrimination.

The Court of Appeal has ruled on a very important legal challenge to a core element of the UK Government's ‘hostile environment’ approach to immigration control, the ‘right to rent’ rules that require private landlords to check the immigration status of potential tenants before letting to them.