It has already become a cliché to say historians will spend years poring over Britain’s shock Brexit vote. While there...
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Social Market Foundation Articles
What matters is what works. But what if we can’t figure that out?
In almost all Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries kids educated in the capital do worse...
Labour isn’t working: what the centrists should do next
Labour under Corbyn cannot provide effective opposition, say Labour centrists miserably. I heard a version of that...
Rumble in the thinktank jungle
Two thinktanks found themselves in the ring squaring off this summer. In the blue corner was the Centre for Policy...
Digital by design
'Are there gaps in our “pyramid of engagement”?’ ‘How do we “reuse the wheel”?’ ‘Can we be “digital by default”?’...
It was acceptable in the 80s
Just as Progress was ushering in 2013 with its annual New Year New Labour party, ‘liberal, progressive’ Conservative...
The social case for public service reform
The Purple Papers and Steve Van Riel’s chapter on Public Services and Political Choices rightly emphasise that there...
Sink or swim
From April 2013, the most significant change to welfare provision in a generation will commence with the introduction...
What Torres tells us about adult skills
Earlier this week, Tom Bewick reviewed the Social Market Foundation’s latest report on how to reform the funding of...
Britain’s got talent
At a time when the coalition government is hellbent on cutting the adult skills budget by £1.1bn (25 per cent), the...
It’s the green economy, stupid
As we get closer to June, excitement is building in the global environment community about the UN Sustainable...
The end of the beginning?
Well that was a rubbish week, wasn’t it? We Labour activists seem to have had quite a few rubbish weeks since 2005....