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We have a golden opportunity to transform public services - let's not waste it
30 October 2014
Everyone recognises that UK public finances are under great strain with at least £77 bn needed in savings by 2018/19 to get the deficit under control. As more public services will feel the impact of cuts to public spending, we...
Continue ReadingAll on board: Miliband could be a trailblazer of people-powered public services
28 October 2014
If you’ve ever had to use a jobcentre, you’ll know that the public sector is far from perfect. Walk in and you’re frequently humiliated by an overworked staff member pointing you to a machine full of minimum wage jobs without...
Continue ReadingCity state of mind: Time for a serious offer for England’s cities
28 October 2014
Variously burdened by economic sclerosis, political dysfunction and additional quandaries too global to handle alone, nation states across the West are stumbling. Mounting evidence suggests that they are no longer the most effective level at which to govern. In some cases,...
Continue ReadingHow Miliband can take his ideas to the max
28 October 2014
Ed Miliband’s leadership has seen a renaissance in Labour thinking. Big ideas about the economy, the state and power itself have been at the heart of a fundamental revision of the Labour creed. But translating these ideas into practice often results...
Continue ReadingFifty years on: Harold Wilson’s lessons for Ed
24 October 2014
By the time Ed Miliband came into the world on Christmas eve 1969, Harold Wilson had been prime minister for five years, at the helm of only the second-ever majority Labour government. Fifty years on from Wilson’s first election, what...
Continue ReadingTime to rethink? A new drugs policy for Labour
23 October 2014
Nick Clegg’s declaration last week that UK drugs policy was ‘idiotic’ merited far more attention than it received. The Lib Dems have announced to take steps towards treating addiction as a health issue rather than a criminal one and to...
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