Only an active welfare state can tackle the scourge of youth unemployment, argues James Purnell Let’s go back to...
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James Purnell Articles
Radical, coherent, imaginative
I’d sum it up as being as bold about public service reform as it is about market reform.There’s a good...
Filling the vacuum
This is the era of democratisation: from the rush of iPhone applications to mass campaigns on everything from global...
Filling the vacuum
This is the era of democratisation: from the rush of iPhone applications to mass campaigns on everything from global...
Speech to Progress annual conference 2008
This has been quite a week. I won’t pretend it’s not all a bit surprising. A new Labour government signals...
James Purnell’s speech
The fact that will do for the Tories is that they don't know what they think. The twists and turns of trying to take...
James Purnell’s speech
The fact that will do for the Tories is that they don't know what they think. The twists and turns of trying to take...
Reform works
The first principle of public speaking is flatter your audience. Today I want to talk to you, appropriately enough,...
Thoughts for the future
Where now for New Labour? For the last 12 years, this has been an academic question. New Labour was whatever this...
Left behind
It was the question behind 'the project' - the fabled plan to reconcile the centre and left traditions in British...
Repeat after me
While David Cameron has borrowed his ‘compassionate Conservative’ label from George Bush’s Republicans, the Tory...
Means test
Politics isn’t about spin: it is a battle of ideas. No amount of presentation will disguise an absence of ideas...