News & Insight

26 December 2013

This government has not hesitated to criticise both the ICT suppliers and the digital record of the last Labour government, claiming billions of pounds of savings by breaking up a ‘closed cartel’ of government suppliers. It is to be hoped that...

24 December 2013

1. We’re all fiscal hawks now 2013 confirmed that all the political parties are fiscal hawks now. The choice is which shade of austerity. Ed Balls first hinted at the pain to come if Labour returns to office at the 2012...

24 December 2013

As George Osborne would have us believe, Britain is a nation on the road to recovery. His case is bolstered by a clutch of positive economic data and the assertion that unemployment has fallen to the lowest level since 2009....

23 December 2013

Recent polls suggest that over two-thirds of the public want to see large sections of the economy that are currently privately run brought into public hands – 70 per cent of the public want to see the railways renationalised, 71...

23 December 2013

1.  The Westminster Village still misreads polls Try as the Mike Smithsons of the blogosphere might, the Westminster village continues to obsess over the lack of consistent double digit poll leads by Labour. And yet the fact is that Labour’s lead...

22 December 2013

Once every generation or so, the question of constitutional reform emerges from its anorak-clad obscurity to take centre stage in British political life. 2014 is that moment for this generation, as next September’s referendum on Scottish independence prompts people throughout...