One of the major and traditionally undervalued economic and social tools that government has available to it is the way that it spends public money on private business. UK public procurement expenditure accounts for about £227bn a year, of which...
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What on earth could be going through their minds? What could possibly enable grown men (it is almost always men) to murder and maim defenseless people who pose no immediate physical threat to anyone? Even worse, to commit these heinous...
Over the weekend Ed Miliband asked Andrew Dilnot, the head of the UK Statistics Authority, to consider introducing a new measure of UK living standards. He said: "A future Labour government would use the indicator as the key measure by...
When the physicist Lord Kelvin said: “If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it” he wasn’t thinking about the way we measure the economy, but he could just as well have been. Economic success isn’t success unless it is...
The aim of the Fabian Society's new project is to better equip councils, businesses and residents to mobilise communities to build and participate in local environmental projects.
Through this form, we are asking organisations and individuals to share their insights on...
Government has two options in increasing tax revenues. It can hike up tax rates or it can avoid this unpopular and unsustainable option by ensuring there are a higher number of taxpayers. The government’s current policy of creating more low-paid,...