News & Insight

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...

9 November 2012

Since the financial crisis many have questioned the purpose of economics. With so much of the value created during the pre-crash years now seemingly lost it feels meaningful to ask ‘What is economics for?’ Amidst the soul-searching few would disagree...

8 November 2012

Food is a profoundly political issue. In the not too distant past, the lack of food was a pressing concern for social justice campaigners. Indeed the rationing of food was a central issue during the 1951 election in which the...