News & Insight

We measure GDP, so why not housing affordability?

3 June 2014

The housing market can be the difference between financial sustainability and a bust. It can cause forms of inequality to multiply or underpin an egalitarian strategy to reduce poverty. It can lift up a Chancellor’s career in office and help...

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Long-term lessons

2 June 2014

With the results of May’s elections digested, the end of the current parliament has come into sight. So begins what will be one of the longest ‘long’ general election campaigns for decades. But on the policy issue which has shaped...

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Health and care: The offer of integrated care is not Labour’s alone

29 May 2014

"A big banner policy with wonkish nuance".  That was how the Health Service Journal's David Williams described the Labour leader's approach to big policy announcements the evening before his keynote speech on the NHS. The following day Ed Miliband unveiled his...

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Democracy Without Walls

28 May 2014

That contemporary democracies are increasingly characterised by popular disaffection towards political elites has been widely noted now for a number of years. But the impact of this disaffection has changed. Whilst it was relatively benign and passive before the global...

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No Complacency

27 May 2014

Dear Ed, I have seldom seen a set of local elections about which so much rubbish has been talked, even if the 2014 results were a particularly confusing mixed bag. The media commentary that Labour had done appallingly was initially badly overdone,...

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Time for Labour to take on UKIP

27 May 2014

Even before a single vote was cast in Thursday’s election, it was clear that UKIP would clean up. That the party has not made a more significant impact on the council landscape is mainly due to the UK’s first past...

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