News & Insight

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,...

18 October 2013

Steve McQueen’s new release ‘12 Years a Slave’ has its European premiere in Leicester Square today. Chasing the tails of Tarantino’s ‘Django Unchained’ and Spielberg’s ‘Lincoln’, it’s the third Hollywood movie in 18 months to tackle the difficult theme of slavery....

17 October 2013

It’s that time of year again – the ‘big six’ energy companies have started announcing inflation busting price hikes, to hit just as the cold winter months set in. Today, British Gas announced a hike of nine per cent, following...

17 October 2013

Populism – characterised by an appeal to the masses against elite institutions – has found fertile ground recently. The frenzied subprime lending of banks illuminated just how reckless, and in some cases just how corrupt some of the most powerful...

16 October 2013

At the Labour Party conference in September Ed Miliband spoke about the dangers of a race to the bottom – of falling real wages and problems inherent in the unfair distribution of the benefits of growth. And if a rising...