News & Insight

24 October 2013

For those who attended this week's Green Growth conference at the Trade Unions Congress (TUC) a rare treat was on offer. Among the useful and insightful presentations by scientists explaining the latest data trends was an inspirational speech given by John...

23 October 2013

On Friday the Office for National Statistics (ONS) will publish its latest GDP estimates, which many economists expect to show a marked improvement in UK growth. Not so very long ago an orthodox, if not unarguable, view was that improved...

23 October 2013

Many of the children and young people our legal team work with have made terrible mistakes. That is not to belittle the impact of those mistakes on their victims. A great number of the children I have worked for have...

22 October 2013

Adversity makes strange bedfellows. The old proverb isn’t wrong. In the ongoing debate on the lobbying bill which continues in the House of Lords today, the alliances formed to defend civil society’s free speech have ranged from the strange to...

21 October 2013

Critics of Labour’s time in government are often heard describing new Labour as Croslandite, and they don’t mean it as a compliment. The argument goes that the 1997-2010 government embodied three failings that came straight from Tony Crosland: the pursuit of...

18 October 2013

Less than one week after Bill Shorten was elected leader of the Australian Labor Party, the gravity of the situation is clear.  The brief period of excitement as members rejoiced in the modest serving of democracy that was rationed out,...