News & Insight

28 November 2013

As Alex Salmond launched the white paper this week, he proclaimed that it was a “mission statement and a prospectus for the kind of country we should be and which this government believes we can be.” Now, I am a self-confessed...

27 November 2013

As David Cameron sets out more benefit restrictions on EU migrants today, he responds to genuine anxiety in Britain about the numbers of Romanians and Bulgarians who might come to the UK in 2014. But those of us on the left can...

26 November 2013

George Osborne’s astounding U-turn on a payday loan costs cap was greeted with glee from the left and confusion from the right. It is a victory for the legal loan sharks campaigners, but it isn’t complete. The growth in payday lending has...

26 November 2013

The topics of energy prices, fuel poverty and the big six energy companies have filled newspaper headlines for weeks so it may come as no surprise that today hundreds of people have gathered in Central London, Oxford and Bristol for...

25 November 2013

I’ll dare to say it: amid concerns that the government is selling off parts of the NHS and privatising the service through the back door, the NHS has become the best business opportunity in Britain today. The National Health Service is...