News & Insight

13 November 2014

Politics is changing. No, politics has changed. Out there in the real world people treat politicians not as leaders but as obstacles. The idea of macho and charismatic leaders making promises to do things for people is scorned. The best politicians...

11 November 2014

Since Labour lost power in 2010, the left has turned away from the key precepts of public service reform as practised by the Blair/Brown governments in England. The twin axioms of the New Labour period – top-down control and the...

11 November 2014

Since Labour lost power in 2010, the left has turned away from the key precepts of public service reform as practised by the Blair/Brown governments in England. The twin axioms of the New Labour period – top-down control and the...

11 November 2014

If there is a core to the Miliband project, it is surely the vision of a more responsible, productive and equitable form of capitalism. The limits of New Labour’s approach – to abandon the search for an alternative political economy and...

10 November 2014

Municipal socialism, 1945 dirigisme, Croslandite social democracy and New Labour: each generation of Fabians has had their own statecraft. Now, as the dust slowly settles on Labour’s last spell in office, the contours of yet another theory of government are...

10 November 2014

Municipal socialism, 1945 dirigisme, Croslandite social democracy and New Labour: each generation of Fabians has had their own statecraft. Now, as the dust slowly settles on Labour’s last spell in office, the contours of yet another theory of government are...