The euro has been the subject of fierce debate for years. Yet how many Britons can honestly say they understand the issues or have formed a considered view? Now, with the introduction of notes and coins, the euro debate has...
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Full employment is back on the agenda. But whilst Labour has been successful in reducing the overall level of unemployment, we have not yet achieved jobs for all. Pockets of relatively high, long-term unemployment remain across the country. What is...
Middle East impasse: the only way out was published in January 1977. It built on the two-state proposal in the author’s 1973 Young Fabian pamphlet by sketching out how a Palestinian state could swiftly and safely be catalyzed.
Middle East Conflict: A tale of two peoples was published in January 1973. It set out the rationale for the then unfashionable idea of a Palestinian state alongside Israel – known in later years as the “two-state solution”. Its novel contribution was to look at the conflict subjectively, through the eyes of each of the principal protagonists in turn. This approach led to the conclusion that any proposed solution that denied self-determination to either of the two peoples was doomed and would promote endless conflict – a prognosis borne out by the experiences of subsequent decades.