News & Insight

13 June 2012

The coalition agreement states that a third runway at Heathrow is off the aviation policy menu. David Cameron now says he's not blind to the need for airport expansion in the South East. Conservative MP Zac Goldsmith threatens to stand...

7 June 2012

In modern societies 'debt' refers to an economic relationship of incomplete exchange, based on the expectation that it will, at some point, be closed through repayment. As this relationship extends indefinitely into the future the institution of debt is intimately...

31 May 2012

Ed Miliband made Tom Watson an offer he couldn’t refuse when he asked him to become Labour’s campaign co-ordinator. The Brownite heavy-hitter tells Mary Riddell he has a surprising source of inspiration: Peter Mandelson.   Arriving at Tom Watson’s office, I...

29 May 2012

When the US bank robber Willie Sutton was asked why he robbed banks he replied “because it’s where the money is.”  Political parties need also to be looking “where the seats are” and examining reality rather than falling for mythology.That...

28 May 2012

In the basement of the Fabian Society offices sit a series of archive shelves that slide around like something out of an Indiana Jones library set. When in the basement waiting for a printing job to finish, I occasionally flick...