News & Insight

5 January 2015

It’s largely off the front pages and out of the headlines, but the secretive negotiations of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment partnership (TTIP) will change trade between the EU and the US, potentially permanently. As the general election approaches, Labour must...

24 December 2014

When Emily Thornberry tweeted a picture of a house in Kent draped in St George’s Cross flags, it wasn’t just a momentary lapse in manners which led many to feel the episode was so damaging. The tweet gave life to...

23 December 2014

2014 was the year that UKIP stopped being a sideshow and became the main event. They handily won the European elections, gained their first two elected MPs and troubled the counsels of the mighty in Labour and Tory HQs. Their...

23 December 2014

2014 was the year the pre-election political contours solidified and the most controversial dividing lines centred on the future of government. Next year’s election will offer up some big choices. Here are five things we learnt in 2014 about the...

23 December 2014

This Changes Everything is arguably the most important non-governmental contribution to a crucial year for climate change, building up to UN talks in Paris in 2015. To Klein, climate change is a wake-up call to civilisation. In the face of...

22 December 2014

The dramatic impact of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century is partly down to the sheer reach of its raw material. The product of years of research conducted in partnership with other scholars, including Tony Atkinson at Oxford, this...