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Jon Cruddas’s wide-ranging speech to the RSA on Tuesday on a New Progressive Politics deserves some real attention by the Left. For the first time in this Parliament a senior Labour figure has started to link the rapid advance of digital…
Given that the advent of digital technology poses real questions about how power is distributed - whether via politics or the economy - it is perhaps surprising that the Left isn’t promoting a more mainstream debate about the impact of…
One of the most important things councils do is to provide a stable, loving home for children in care. When it is not possible to keep children with their families councils have a pool of approved foster carers who are able to offer and…
The latest G4S scandal, currently being investigated poses the question: are there enough safeguards against the public purse being ripped off? With the government pressing a privatisation and outsourcing agenda, the public need to be…
This decade is witnessing a fundamental shift in how information is gathered and communicated – for want of a better phrase we are undergoing the ‘digital revolution’, a phenomenon which threatens to change almost every aspect of our lives…
Conservative plans to scrap housing benefit support for under-25s may be a classic Conference clap-line against the feckless jobless, but in reality they will punish a group of people who are among our most vulnerable and actually…
Here are some shocking stats on our skills gap in need of a solid solution - despite being home to the most digitally innovative industries in the world and 'Tech City' London's schools are currently failing to produce Computer Science…
By Theo Blackwell Here in the UK, we don't have to go too far back to see how the City can be rocked by poor decisions around financial investment and the environment. Re-insurance giant Lloyd's of London was humbled in the 1990s; among the…
By Theo Blackwell David Cameron has tried to kill the Hannan-NHS story, but more questions surely need to be asked. The one that springs to mind is whether Hannan attacked the NHS out of the goodness of his heart, or whether he was invited…
By Theo Blackwell Britain's Nation Health Service is currently under attack in the United States by the Republican and right-wing attack-dogs in their opposition to Obama's health plans. Practically every day the Obama healthcare reforms…
By Theo Blackwell A rather patrician MP, I forget who (although I suspect Roy Jenkins), once counselled that the mark of a steadfast Prime Minister was to take a poor set of local elections on the chin. Perhaps this was true in the 1970s…
By Theo Blackwell A rejoinder: Conservative representative Dan Hannan recently disparaged the National Health Service on Fox Television in the U.S. On April 6th he went even further on his blog, warning Americans (or those of them who read…
