Tom Levitt Articles

As a loyal former Labour member of parliament I occasionally supported policies for which my passion was less than total. Yet rarely did I sense a whole queue of them steaming up together, like proverbial London buses, as they appear to me today. I am talking about...

Gains from the Social Value Act are already being put at risk and opportunities are being missed: this is my reading of the impact of the first year of this otherwise very creative piece of legislation. As assessments are published on the Act’s impact by both the...

When Al Gore spoke at London’s Guildhall recently it was not to focus thoughts on climate change – though it was never far from the surface – but to ask how our whole economy can become more sustainable in every sense of the word. The bottom line was that we’re stuck...

There is a quiet revolution going on in England’s schools. They have discovered that implementing controversial Labour legislation on trust schools and academies, coupled with the coalition’s manic passion for the latter, does not mean that school communities must be...