One Nation in isolation?
This week I attended the launch of LabourList’s One Nation book. Arriving, as I often do, ten minutes…
Economy
Labour should promise radical reform of the UK economy in 2015
George Osborne’s decision to use the recent Autumn Statement to cut social security payments in real terms provided…
Painful spending choices will happen, even if a future Labour chancellor can avoid an outright cut in expenditure
P.G Wodehouse said ‘it is a good rule in life never to apologise’. As he delivered a grim…
Lord Ashcroft has crystallised Labour’s big dilemma
Lord Ashcroft occupies a curious position in British politics nowadays. Three years ago the Billionare from Belize was…
Tax Justice: The deeds to a new United Nation
By Mark Donne Apart from a flag, a Queen, or a team, what consolidates our nation state? The…
Economic recovery must be shared by all
Despite the UK’s emergence from recession, deficit reduction and economic recovery will continue to shape the life of…
An economy that speaks to the Nation
At this year’s party conferences, politicians of all colours spoke to the deep sense of economic uncertainty that…
Britain needs a state investment bank
Nick Tott was right when he said in a report for the Labour Party earlier this year that…
What would a One Nation recovery look like?
After the longest double recession since the Second World War, the economy is growing again. Whilst a growing…
Building the institutions of economic democracy
Over the last thirty years, the boundaries between the state and the market have become increasingly blurred. Politicians…
