News & Insight

29 September 2014

A criminal wearing a collar and tie is still a criminal and if he steals your pension should go to prison in the same way someone who steals your wallet should. We have to get serious about white collar crime. Since...

23 September 2014

Tony Blair portrayed himself as a non-ideological, pragmatic leader whose mantra was that he supported ‘what worked’. Unfortunately this wasn’t true. During the debate on the privatisation of air traffic control he told me, in a private meeting, that however strong...

23 September 2014

Today Ed Miliband put substance over style. His speech won’t be remembered for its rhetorical flourish. But in his remarks today, Ed set out big, radical goals for changing Britain over a decade. It was the most Fabian speech I’ve...

23 September 2014

Britain, long known as a nation of shopkeepers, is now better described as a nation of financial advisors, lawyers, business strategists, architects, advertising executives, and media consultants. These are the workers of the service economy which now makes up over...

23 September 2014

If we are to keep on anything like an achievable track to meet the carbon targets laid down by Labour’s own Climate Change Act in 2008, Labour will come to power facing an imperative to reduce carbon emissions by an...