News & Insight

27 September 2012

In the 1990s Tory Ministers in the Major government claimed that selling-off the UK’s railways would bring "benefits to passengers and taxpayers".  Such a claim now appears laughable after years of rail fragmentation and chaos: rising fares, little sign of...

26 September 2012

The political consensus around education is wrong - anyone outside Westminster knows this. Parents, employers, colleges and universities know it. Certainly the young people and teachers in our schools know it. We need a progressive alternative. Built around a 19th century...

26 September 2012

Recently I was asked how excited members of the Labour party were about their membership. As we were talking, Anne-Marie Huby (co-founder of Justgiving.com) then pointed to research published by the Harvard Business School that suggests the best reflection of...

26 September 2012

The first 18 months of recovery up to mid-2011 had looked promising, particularly for manufacturers. The sector was delivering an increased share of output, providing a boost to our trade performance and investing more than the wider economy. Since then...

25 September 2012

For the last two years I and many others have called and called again for political panels in general – and particularly those around the Labour party conference – to be a bit more gender balanced; to at least have...

25 September 2012

The Labour policy review is well into its second year and on its second custodian but are we any clearer as to where it’s taking the party and who owns the current policy positions? We need to avoid creating false...