News & Insight

29 May 2014

"A big banner policy with wonkish nuance".  That was how the Health Service Journal's David Williams described the Labour leader's approach to big policy announcements the evening before his keynote speech on the NHS. The following day Ed Miliband unveiled his...

28 May 2014

That contemporary democracies are increasingly characterised by popular disaffection towards political elites has been widely noted now for a number of years. But the impact of this disaffection has changed. Whilst it was relatively benign and passive before the global...

27 May 2014

Dear Ed, I have seldom seen a set of local elections about which so much rubbish has been talked, even if the 2014 results were a particularly confusing mixed bag. The media commentary that Labour had done appallingly was initially badly overdone,...

27 May 2014

Even before a single vote was cast in Thursday’s election, it was clear that UKIP would clean up. That the party has not made a more significant impact on the council landscape is mainly due to the UK’s first past...

22 May 2014

Hello, my name is Simon and I am a carer. 31st May, 2005. That’s my carer date. At the time of writing this, I have been caring for my wife, who has progressive MS, for just short of nine years. I’ve...