Tom Levitt Articles

Bill Clinton recently wrote a piece in the Financial Times entitled ‘Charity needs capitalism to solve the world’s problems’; do I dimly remember Marx saying something similar about how socialism needed capitalism in order to work, too? The point the former president...

While Ed Miliband’s new year message does not specifically mention aspirations for the third sector, two priorities stand out: the call for Labour to ‘become a genuine community force’, and ‘an economy which works for all’. The first is obvious. The involvement of...

The question about the role of business in society that Ed Miliband raised in his Labour conference speech is not as simple as whether a particular company is 'good' or 'bad'; rather it is about their direction and speed of travel, how they interpret their role as...

If politics is the art of the possible then the current plethora of debate within the Labour party is clearly healthy. What is possible? Whether our analysis is blue Labour or a reborn New Labour, plain ‘Labour’ or even Good Capitalism we have to be somewhere else...