Social Market Foundation Articles

Two thinktanks found themselves in the ring squaring off this summer. In the blue corner was the Centre for Policy Studies. And in the red – well, in this particular fight, the Social Market Foundation would certainly contest the colour assigned to it. The reason for...

'Are there gaps in our “pyramid of engagement”?’ ‘How do we “reuse the wheel”?’ ‘Can we be “digital by default”?’ These were the questions circulating somewhere in the ether above a crowded room of thinktankers gathered together on the initiative of Social Market...

Just as Progress was ushering in 2013 with its annual New Year New Labour party, ‘liberal, progressive’ Conservative organisation Bright Blue launched a booklet entitled Tory Modernisation 2.0: The Future of the Conservative Party. With contributions from figures...

The Purple Papers and Steve Van Riel’s chapter on Public Services and Political Choices rightly emphasise that there are no pain-free options for public services in the future. They accurately describe the risks and trade-offs which a future Labour government would...