News & Insight

22 December 2014

The dramatic impact of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century is partly down to the sheer reach of its raw material. The product of years of research conducted in partnership with other scholars, including Tony Atkinson at Oxford, this...

22 December 2014

1.       This is a new kind of recovery When is a recovery not a recovery? This year the UK’s growth has taken off in a way quite unlike the aftermath of previous recessions. Your view of the performance of the economy in...

22 December 2014

Tax is one of the most important relationships between the citizen and the state. But despite its centrality, honest and rational political debate around tax has remained taboo this year. 2015 will see the fruits of a new Fabian programme...

22 December 2014

Several years have passed since Yvette Cooper and Ed Balls spent their Christmas Eve trying, and failing, to find Argos in Basingstoke, where they were spending the festive period with Cooper’s family. Having twice circumnavigated the town’s ringroad through grid-locked...

18 December 2014

Like most people of my generation my first memory of banks wasn't a bank but a building society. But those soon disappeared after the deregulation reforms of the 1980's. After that they weren’t something I paid much attention to other...

17 December 2014

Around 15 years ago a new tribe entered our lexicon: the NEETs, young people who are not in education, employment or training. Reducing their number was a priority for the Labour government of the day. The Social Exclusion Unit was...