Traditional democracy is creaking. The process of politics itself needs to change – the stakes could not be higher. Policy making, and the practice of ‘doing’ ...
In 2019 some 80 per cent of the UK live not at the heart of big cities, but in the suburbs bordering our metropolises. The suburbs are of great psephological s...
We should expect democratic systems to meet some relatively modest claims: they should be able to provide for the equal treatment of men and women as individua...
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...
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 ...
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...
Generational politics is nothing new, but the extent of the
profound generational cleavage that has emerged in British electoral politics
is. After the Brexit ...
You may remember a news
story about a sex offender treatment programme in prisons being
disbanded. The decision was taken not just because the programme was in...
Politicians often point to falling benefit claimant counts as a measure of success. Tackling ‘dependency’ on state benefits is a key policy objective, and if s...
Basic income is a fine formula for a populist era, as this book ably demonstrates. It is a seductively simple concept that seems to address a range of urgent p...
In his classic study of racism and psychiatry, Black Skin, White Masks, Frantz Fanon made a number of startling and powerful observations. While many of these h...
These days, few organisations can escape the clamour to assess the ‘Social Return on Investment’, or SROI, of proposed new projects. But how often are local peo...
