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It is tempting to regard last week’s general election result as a belated tribute to the late David Marquand, the influential public intellectual who coined the term the ‘progressive dilemma’.
By Nick Pearce As a former head of the Number 10 Policy Unit, I have been reading about the recent reorganisation of David Cameron's operations there with some interest. I always thought it was a mistake for the incoming Prime Minister to…
By Nick Pearce I was surprised to hear Steve Richards, whose journalism I admire greatly, declare on the Today programme that the coalition government was a radical administration on par with the 1946 Attlee and 1979 Thatcher governments…
By Nick Pearce I was interested, if a little bemused, to read David Laws' account of the coalition negotiations, serialised from his forthcoming book 22 Days in May. His account makes abundantly clear what everyone now knows: that forming a…
By Nick Pearce Weekend reports suggest that social housing is set to be one of the biggest losers in the upcoming spending review, with cuts of up to 80% predicted in capital spending on social and affordable homes. It is not difficult to…
By Nick Pearce The spending review is nearly on us. It presents an obvious opportunity for the new Labour leadership - the cuts are not going to be popular and opposing them will win easy support. But that also represents a danger: Labour…
