Redefining the relationship – Is now the time for a new public service settlement between citizen and state?
The tension between managing decreasing budgets and increased demand for ‘people’ services such as adult social care and…
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HS2 and Trident should not be grand projects when there is a grand housing crisis
“Follow the money”, they say in detective stories. Apply your inner Sherlock to the government’s grand projects in…
Our high streets are a more reliable measure of the economy than economists’ forecasts
On the face of it, the latest GDP figures look promising. And the recent poll of over 50…
How much longer will we have to wait before the government gets HS2 back on track?
Last week’s report from Sir David Higgins is a substantial, thoughtful and thorough analysis of how the benefits…
Is Cruddas/Alexander the divide in the Shadow Cabinet?
The rumblings over Labour’s policy offer continue today. With the party’s big “Warwick 3” National Policy Forum meeting…
Why yesterday’s letter to the Guardian was a mistake
Well this is a tricky one. Some of my best friends in politics – including the editor of…
Labour has an ambitious and realistic vision for UK defence
UK Defence policy is at a crossroads: UK Service Personnel will have withdrawn from Afghanistan by the end…
A complex lesson for the French Socialists
Socialists down; Front National (FN) up: the far right creeps forward in France’s local elections. It would be…
Together we can
Closer ties, not separation, can help provide solutions to problems in Scotland and England. I left Scottish Labour…
Labour needs to go bigger and bolder, not just to win but to govern too
There’s a letter in the Guardian today (posted below) which I, and a cross-section of “a coalition of thinktanks and…
