News & Insight

15 April 2015

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...

14 April 2015

Politics has changed dramatically over the last five years. The coalition, the collapse of the LibDems, the rise of UKIP, the Greens and the SNP; all of this, plus voter anger towards the traditional parties has created a challenging environment...

13 April 2015

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...

13 April 2015

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...

13 April 2015

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...

10 April 2015

Young people in Britain today are deeply political – just as likely to volunteer as previous generations, highly engaged in political issues and entrepreneurial about social change. They just aren’t joining political parties or showing many signs of wanting to...