When the lights went out: Britain in the seventiesAndy BeckettFaber 524pp£20‘I have been hearing what was...
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Ed Thornton Articles
Progress summer reading
Cameron: the rise of the new ConservativeFrancis Elliott & James HanningHarper Perennial 368pp £8.99When...
Curing Labour
Following Labour’s disastrous performance in last month’s local and European elections, Demos published a...
Tanked up: Royal reward
Policy wonks probably not by nature the most competitive types, more likely to be preoccupied by the latest...
Northern discomfort
The Tory party’s favourite thinktank fell dramatically out of favour with its Cameronite friends over the summer...
Trading insults
The next time the Fairtrade Foundation holds a parliamentary reception, one of the organisations unlikely to be on its...
Power games
While the rest of the world does proper jobs, thinktanks across London while away the day in seminars, roundtables or,...
Progress Labour School Governors’ Network launch
School governors will be called upon to play a more ambitious role as they help their schools engage with the wider...
Farming today, gone tomorrow
After a long, drawn-out Christmas season of drinks parties followed by illness, many from wonk world will have...
Tanked up: Seeing clearly
If Gordon Brown has not discovered his ‘vision’ by Christmas it will not be the fault of the nation’s thinktanks, who...
Academic awards
After a fringe-tastic party conference season, the great and the good gathered in London on 10 October for Prospect...
Soft sell
Neal Lawson, chair of Compass and a regular face on the Guardian’s comment pages these days, fired off a firm missive...