News & Insight

28 July 2016

England was a fractured country well before the 24th June; the tensions that are now widely acknowledged had been developing for many years. A different result would have just left the other half of England feeling they had lost their...

27 July 2016

While record numbers of people are in employment and some good jobs are being created, there are three key trends which define the changing world of work: hollowing out, stagnation and atomisation. It is only by understanding the true nature...

26 July 2016

The Labour ship is floating in dangerous waters, and it is far from certain that it will ultimately reach a safe harbour. Yet one declaration by Owen Smith, whether or not he succeeds in his challenge to Jeremy Corbyn, opens...

25 July 2016

Each year one in four people experience a mental health problem. If you haven't experienced a mental health problem yourself, it is likely that a close friend or family member has, although - given the on-going stigma attached to mental...

24 July 2016

Public discussion on refugee protection tends to focus on headline numbers set by policymakers. In Britain one of these numbers is 20,000. That is, in September 2015 David Cameron promised to resettle 20,000 Syrian refugees in Britain by 2020. The...

22 July 2016

Ruth Davis traces how the green movement and the wider left became estranged from people’s everyday lives – and how we might come together again around an English politics of nature...