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What a summer we’ve had; if the diamond jubilee wasn’t enough we’ve had the Euro 2012 football tournament (with the usual England exit in the quarter finals but without the angst-ridden hype beforehand); Bradley Wiggins winning the Tour de France; then the Olympics...

At the start of the summer I was fortunate enough to be invited to speak at Young Labour’s annual conference. I began by asking those gathered if they were a member of a union: not everybody put their hand up. It's not so long ago that you wouldn't even have asked a...

Innovation is widely seen as a key driver of growth. But the public understanding – and politicians’ understanding – of innovation is naïve. This has led to short-termism, to manipulation of policy by vested interests in the research community, to chaotic governance...

As a former secretary of the Federation of Small Businesses in Leicester, the easiest way for me to bring an unnerving quiet to a room of small business owners used to be to say that I was a Labour party member. In my experience, small businesses have had a distrust...