Big Society Articles

There are two answers to the question we posed at the Progress meeting at Labour North West conference. How you answer it defines how you are going to act politically. The first is a short answer. No. We have got a Tory government, Britain cannot be fairer. If we get...

Has Conservative modernisation stalled? Patrick Diamond and Ryan Shorthouse go head to head Dear Ryan Past Conservative leaders have demonstrated a ruthless ability to reinvent and modernise their party as times changed. Defeat in 1945 heralded ‘the forward march of...

Politicians are obsessed with ‘narrative’. Modern government deals with a bewilderingly diverse range of policy problems: from declining bee populations, to NHS waiting lists, to aircraft carrier procurement. Boiling this down to a simple, salient, doorstep-ready...

From the start, there was something different about the last recession. The financial crisis hit all sectors of the economy at the same time and demand fell across the economy. People were angry yet the backlash was relatively muted. The Occupy demonstrations for a...