News & Insight

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...

23 September 2014

A Foreign Office official recently told me the world's dirtiest secret. Under his breath, he muttered to me: "I don't think we've got a cat in hell's chance of keeping the world under two degrees of global warming." As politicians and...

23 September 2014

A lot is written about the housing crisis, but it’s not just a crisis for those who are homeless or those who are living in overcrowded slums. It’s a crisis for all of us. Decent homes make a decent society...

23 September 2014

The next government will be the most digital ever. But it will only be progressive if it’s a Labour government. Labour’s history, our roots, are in the empowerment of people. All too often government is something done to the people. Digital government must...