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By Michael Kenny Ed Miliband’s adoption of the ‘one nation’ mantle offered a timely claim upon the political centre-ground at a point when the Conservative leadership is facing a strong magnetic pull rightwards. But, as it starts to put…
As Labour seeks to elaborate its ‘One Nation’ approach to policy and politics, immigration raises a number of difficult questions. For many people, the UK’s public, political, and policy debate about immigration epitomises the precise…
By Karel Williams and Sukhdev Johal Rebuilding the regions is like rebalancing the economy. It is a sound bite which fits easily into Westminster speeches as a consensual national objective which will not frighten swing voters. The problem…
By Richard Grayson In creating ‘One Nation’, the goals of policymakers and politicians should be to secure greater social cohesion and greater social mobility. Both involve creating a more equal society, something which the current…
David Cameron has committed two inexplicable blunders in his handling of the referendum on independence for Scotland, to be held in autumn 2014 – barely two years away. First, he has agreed with Alex Salmond that there will be only two…
Lord Heseltine’s Review, published today, is right about many things. He is right that government has a role in shaping and stimulating economic growth through an active industrial strategy – something progressives have been saying for some…
While the element of Barbara Castle’s career that has made it onto the silver screen was the portrayal of her as Employment Minister in the film ‘Made in Dagenham’, her role a great reforming Labour Transport Minister (arguably the last) is…
Sometimes leaving home is difficult, but often it's for the best. Parliamentary authorities are in the process of deciding how to renovate a Palace of Westminster that is badly in need of repair. Although the building is not due to slip…
Nick Clegg announced on Monday that the Prime Minister has decided to abandon the Lib Dems’ House of Lords Reform Bill, and that in retaliation (not Mr Clegg’s word, but that’s what it amounts to) the LibDems will vote against the Tories’…
The population of England and Wales has increased by 3.7 million since 2002 which represents a huge logistical challenge not just in terms of planning local services but also in terms of addressing the widening democratic deficit in England…
The British state is a monster and it's a consequence of its constitution. Ministerial responsibility, the centralised, unitary state (inEngland) and departmental separation have left an inefficient, ineffective, unaccountable and wasteful…
During my lifetime, two views of how Scotland should develop have been fixed on our political landscape. One was a view that argued for Scotland to separate decisively from the rest of the UK, and has been consistently advocated by the…
