What do
employers and employees gain when they participate in mechanisms of collective
voice? This question matters because work is changing and there are like...
While a lot of recent attention has focussed upon Russian attempts
to influence the
2016 United States presidential election, far less work has addressed their...
The Conservative Party regards
human rights as a ‘foreign’ imposition from Europe. Conservatives opposed
Labour's Human Rights Act (HRA) in 1998; recent manife...
Public inquiries sometimes feel
like a version of Groundhog Day where it is repeatedly stated
that ‘lessons will be learned’. One of the key reasons ...
The ideas for
corporate governance reform espoused in the final report of the IPPR Commission
on Economic Justice make intuitive sense. But the question, from ...
Social media are blamed for almost everything
that is wrong with democracy.
Facebook, twitter and other platforms are held
responsible for pollution of the...
Forty years ago, those in the top one per cent took home
around three per cent of all income; today that share has more doubled
to around eight per cent. Aroun...
What to make of
Extinction Rebellion (XR) after its spectacular week occupying four very
visible sites in central London? We were there on the first day of the...
The suburban areas that were initially stereotyped in the late
nineteenth century as ‘Villa Tory’ strongholds and exemplified by Hackney and
Islington were pla...
The 2017 snap general
election was, for many people, a remarkable result for Labour given the
pervading conventional wisdom that the Labour party could not do ...
With numerous
delays to the publication of the social care green paper, everyone in the
health and social care industry has had ample time to truly consider wh...
Mustn't grumble. Mustn't make a fuss.
England's suburbs are slowly dying, as years of austerity slowly changes the
landscape. Since 2014, life expectancy has b...