Next year ministers will seek views on devolving the main disability benefit for pensioners to English councils. This is a big deal for the architecture of the welfare state, even though the news came in a low-key half paragraph, published...
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“I hear people say we have to stop and debate globalisation. You might as well debate whether autumn should follow summer. They're not debating it in China and India. They are seizing its possibilities, in a way that will transform...
Over the course of the next decade, the UK faces a series of economic and social challenges that will have a significant impact on the way we live our lives. From globalisation to terrorism; from an ageing society to devolution:...
When Poland joined the European Union in 2004, huge numbers of Poles relocated to the UK. Polish residents are now the third largest foreign born ethnic group in the UK.
Next month’s mayoral election is the first election since the creation of the post to guarantee a non-incumbent mayor. Over the past six months, Londoners, or those who follow politics at least, are now on first name terms with Zac...
Six months before the 2015 general election, some of us identified the question of “how can Labour win in England?” as an existential challenge. MPs like John Denham, Jon Cruddas and Steve Reed, PPCs including Polly Billington and Rowenna Davis, local...