One of the most striking political developments of the last year has been the return of class to the forefront of...
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The politics of climate change
According to the Observer, Ed Miliband has declared war on the climate change sceptics. I go along with the science,...
Justice reinvestment and cutting crime
Last weekend's bizarre row over David Cameron's proposal to introduce prison ships ‘to ease Britain's...
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Mutual markets
Few, other than perhaps the most trenchant ‘Chicago school' economist, would today believe that the 21st century...
Honest account
After seven months of the current financial year, government borrowing has already reached £87 billion and it is...
Fragile society
The post-war welfare state was designed to slay Beveridge's infamous five giants: want, disease, ignorance, squalor...
Paving the way
This week's confirmation that the government plans to legislate for a referendum on electoral reform means that the...
Cameron�s Tories: by the rich for the rich
'Cameron's Conservatives: Government of the rich, by the rich, for the rich?' It is not impossible that Labour will...
Sick of marshmallow politics
What are people trying to achieve when they vote in a general election? Reformers argue we want to change the voting...
Arrested development
The police are almost unique in having avoided major public service reform under governments of both main parties. The...
Wanted: experience handling bananas
Given Europe is supposed to be the land of straight bananas, it really was the most supreme folly for the continent to...