News & Insight

4 February 2014

With the political progress of HS2 being closely tracked, and the recent output of the Davies Commission and the Armitt Review, a great number of column inches are being devoted to debating the future of major transport infrastructure provision in...

3 February 2014

Labour only wins big when it manages to root its progressive aspirations in the national story. But in 1945, 1964 and 1997, Labour leaders did not simply recapture the flag, they offered a convincing narrative about how Britain could respond...

31 January 2014

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31 January 2014

Historically, Labour has never really bothered much with the state – in a conceptual rather than a practical political sense that is. The Attlee, Wilson and Blair and Brown governments got on with big changes to the constitution, including Whitehall,...

30 January 2014

The big news may have been restoration of the 50p marginal tax rate on the richest one per cent, but it was another part of Ed Balls’ speech to the Fabian New Year conference on Saturday that pricked up my...

30 January 2014

The richest 85 people in the world hold the same wealth as the bottom 3.5 billion people. This is the headline grabbing statistic from a new Oxfam report about extreme economic inequality in the world today.  The paper was launched...