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Globalisation for the many

A progressive approach to globalised finance needs to create a financial sector that funds investment in the real economy
“I sympathise, therefore, with those who would minimise, rather than with those who would maximise, economic entanglement among nations. Ideas, knowledge, science,...

Power to the people

If we want to show how Labour can make a lasting difference to lives, we need to look to the local
We know the power of people because we see it every day in our own communities. But too often people...

Let us build

Council housing was once a force for good in our communities - and it can be again
 

I grew up in council housing in south London in the 1960s and 70s. I will always be grateful to Southwark Council for providing...

Building a more socially integrated society

Think tanks from the right and left of politics spend a lot of their time arguing with each other. But there is plenty we agree on too, and the need for social mixing and a shared common life is something that...

Hope against hate

Can King's vision overcome Trump's vitriol?
On November 13, 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered an impromptu speech in Newcastle upon Tyne after receiving an honorary doctorate from Newcastle University. King challenged his British audience to join him in confronting...

Rural America: 'A silent majority'

For the British viewer, Tuesday’s US presidential election night coverage unfolded in eerily familiar fashion to the Brexit referendum night. Premised on early voting that suggested huge Hispanic turnout in urban Florida and Trump’s weak showing in typically Republican cities,...

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