New technology is disrupting established industries at a breakneck pace. Just think of the effect of internet banking on employment in the financial sector; the likely effect of driverless cars on the automotive sector; of social media on taxi services;...
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Labour’s five years in opposition culminated in an election manifesto which married fiscal discipline with a programme for social and economic renewal. The document only contained fully costed pledges, but it also promised big solutions on issues from inequality to...
How to Run a Government, so that citizens benefit and taxpayers don’t go crazy
Michael Barber (Penguin, March 2015)
The skills needed to win elections are very different from those required to govern effectively. In his new book Sir Michael Barber...
Labour’s manifesto is brimming with important policies. Individually some may be small in scale, but collectively they add up to a great deal. They will change the nation - and they are all contained within the party’s tough commitments on...
In December, politicians, campaigners and diplomats will come together in Paris for the latest in a series of UN negotiations aimed at tackling the world’s greatest collective challenge: how to catalyse action on climate change. But whether or not these...
If there’s one thing that is certain after the general election, it’s that politics is unlikely to be the same again. The rise of multi-party politics in the UK is shifting the electoral dynamics in our communities as party loyalties...