Writing for the Guardian last week, Amelia Gentleman reported on the Hackney housing micro-boom that saw the average cost of a home in the east London borough exceed £500,000 for the first time in December. Growing up in Hackney, I’ve...
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Peter Kellner has written of late on how policies themselves do not necessarily have to be popular. They have to be believed. They have to be credible. The example given by Kellner was that the 50p tax announcement by Ed...
Lobbying has become a new swear word if you believe the hype about the Lobbying Bill which is going through Parliament.
Sometimes when all parties in Parliament agree on something you have to look a bit more closely to see if...
At the Labour Party conference in September Ed Miliband spoke about the dangers of a race to the bottom – of falling real wages and problems inherent in the unfair distribution of the benefits of growth. And if a rising...
When a reshuffle is in the air, everybody can sense it. Ministers and their shadows pop up on the television a lot more, make far more interventions. The press is full of endless speculations. Who’s in? Who’s out? Who’s up?...
Last week, Nissan's chief operating officer, Toshiyuki Shiga, warned Britain against leaving the European Union. He claimed that our ongoing membership is 'very important' for foreign investors and highlighted the dramatic consequence of having to set up our own standards...