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Conservative thinktank Renewal's new pamphlet The Party of Opportunity is intended to blow away the idea that the Conservative party is only for braying public schoolboys and hard-faced men who have done well out of capitalism. In the pamphlet 14 Tory members of...

The Fourth Revolution, a new 'zeitgeist' book by the editor-in-chief and management wditor of the Economist, is a brilliant book both in conception and execution. While the critic can find nits at which to pick (the observation that Ed Miliband ‘owes his position to...

The long-awaited spending review was a depressing day for our public services. The announcement put the detail to the cuts to 2015-16 spending that were promised in the budget in March. For Labour, there were no real surprises and we had finally invested some time and...

Sometimes public policy debates can feel like a choice between two poisoned chalices: the unfettered market on the right and paternalism on the left. Yet, despite their obvious differences, these competing worldviews have a lot in common. Neither is particularly...