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Review: On Liberty by Shami Chakrabarti
14 January 2015
Like John Stuart Mill’s 1859 treatise of the same name, On Liberty is a timely wake-up call. But while Mill was an establishment figure deploying the philosophical reasoning of utilitarianism to decry tyranny, Chakrabarti, having forsaken the establishment, engages in...
Continue ReadingClose to home: Working with communities to counter extremism
14 January 2015
We have all seen the horrific consequences of extremist ideology here in the UK. We were appalled by the 7/7 London bombings and the murder of trooper Lee Rigby, and our hearts went out to these innocent victims and their...
Continue ReadingHow Labour could get public procurement right
13 January 2015
One of the major and traditionally undervalued economic and social tools that government has available to it is the way that it spends public money on private business. UK public procurement expenditure accounts for about £227bn a year, of which...
Continue ReadingDemocracy needs defending. Are we up to the task?
13 January 2015
What on earth could be going through their minds? What could possibly enable grown men (it is almost always men) to murder and maim defenseless people who pose no immediate physical threat to anyone? Even worse, to commit these heinous...
Continue ReadingFamily living standards are the real test of economic success
12 January 2015
Over the weekend Ed Miliband asked Andrew Dilnot, the head of the UK Statistics Authority, to consider introducing a new measure of UK living standards. He said: "A future Labour government would use the indicator as the key measure by...
Continue ReadingMiliband's Living Standards Index shows what we measure matters
12 January 2015
When the physicist Lord Kelvin said: “If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it” he wasn’t thinking about the way we measure the economy, but he could just as well have been. Economic success isn’t success unless it is...
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