Two stories on the Today programme this morning separated by other news items but intrinsically linked caught my...
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Getting growth, Europe-style
We both grew up in Merseyside during years that saw its population decline and the economy stagger from crisis to...
Five notes on Cameron’s EU-turn
1) David Cameron’s acceptance in Brussels yesterday that Britain would place no obstacles in the next stage of...
The other great crisis
While attention was last week focused on the crisis surrounding News Corp, another crisis was slowly burning away...
Royals about to rake it in
Despite the Murdoch furore these are neither radical nor Republican times. For proof look at a sneaky little bill...
Britain’s housing crisis is a set of linked crises
(without really improving affordability). New Labour did much to improve the standard of social housing, but far too...
Scotland result is less surprising than appears
Scotland is proof of Blue Labour's thesis that faith, flag and country are replacing class alignments. The SNP was...
Lessons from Canada
First, a word of caution. Like its weather, Canada's politics goes in for extremes. In 1993 the Canadian Conservatives...
Scrapping fuel escalator won’t hide Osborne’s modesty
Even then, the predictions by the Office for Budget Responsibility for the next couple of years are extremely heroic....
International social democracy
Good evening, thank you for coming to this Progress event and thank you to Richard and Robert for organising it....
‘Too big to fail’, but Eurozone’s crisis is deep
As the crisis facing the Eurozone deepens, so does the pressure on Europe's political leaders. Having spent months...