News & Insight

21 November 2012

Political gamesmanship is trumping compassionate politics. Spending choices should be about how to minimise the pain and suffering families must endure as a result of today's savage economic forces. Instead the Government is intent on targeting the least popular groups...

15 November 2012

Last year, the Campaign for Learning did a piece of research for Pearson into why some employers don’t get involved with apprenticeships. The results were pretty depressing. The in-depth telephone interviews we did revealed several reasons why some employers hadn’t...

14 November 2012

He might not know it, but Matthew D’Ancona is – at least if you are a Labour supporter – one of the most dangerous men in Britain.  That’s because, along with other journalists like Danny Finkelstein, Ian Birrell, and Peter...

13 November 2012

Two and a half years into this Tory led government, it is already clear that the Britain Labour hopes to govern in 2015 will be divided at home and diminished abroad. Irrespective of GDP figures, which are likely to be volatile...

13 November 2012

Ed Miliband’s 'one nation' speech at 2012 Labour party conference sent ripples through the party, across Westminster and beyond. http://youtu.be/oqYGbEY-EC8 In this series a range of contributors look at the issue of one nation and explore what it means for Labour, what...

12 November 2012

In recent years the public sector has been attacked by a virulent bug called neophilia, defined in my medical dictionary as a fixation with the new, the trendy, the ‘transformative’. The dictionary adds: neophilia is a disease preceded by acute...