News & Insight

10 July 2013

There have been concerns from some environmentalists that Labour doesn’t ‘get’ the importance of political leadership on climate change. Any such fears can now be banished after Ed Ball’s speech to the Green Alliance. It was a speech about infrastructure that...

10 July 2013

Political controversy over the trade union political levy is nothing new. Stanley Baldwin made a powerful speech in its defence in 1924, in response to a Tory private members bill which sought to legislate for union members contracting in rather...

6 July 2013

It is a troubling conclusion that the environmental movement has been unable to capitalise on overwhelming evidence in favour of dramatic co2 emissions reductions. In the same way that the financial crisis did not automatically improve the fortunes of the...

6 July 2013

The environment and citizenship programme is one that tries to grapple with what I think can be summed up by two central questions: Firstly, how can we keep the environment on the agenda at a time of economic insecurity and uncertainty? And...

5 July 2013

In the summer of 1888, there was uproar on the streets of the East End. 1,400 matchmakers, mostly women and young girls, had walked out of Bryant & May’s factory in Bow and were picketing its gates. This horrified polite society. Victorian...