News & Insight

25 October 2012

Figures released today put UK GDP for quarter three growth at 1 per cent. Speculated over for weeks, the release of today's figures will not end discussion as to whether the UK economy is now on the road back to...

25 October 2012

Welfare has borne the brunt of the coalition’s austerity cuts and George Osborne threatens that another £10 billion will be slashed after the next election, should the Conservatives remain in office. Plenty for the Opposition to get its teeth stuck into...

24 October 2012

What’s your favourite shocking statistic about the lack of women in science in the UK? I set out to find my own top 10 after a Fabian Women’s Network debate on the subject in Westminster in June. Some of these statistics...

23 October 2012

In the aftermath of the financial crisis, a wave of social democratic parties across Europe suffered heavy election defeats. What is more, social democrats have very few means by which to defend the political economy they oversaw during their time...

23 October 2012

Women’s earnings have never been more important to families or the economy. As men’s earnings have stagnated over the last decade, women’s have continued to rise slowly, filling in gaps in household finances alongside tax credits. Surprisingly, mothers have been closing...

22 October 2012

At the heart of the current presidential contest between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney is the question of power: who will wield it and to what purpose? Politicos – both elected and otherwise – rightly obsess over this both in...