Making ‘predistribution’ real through energy efficiency
Britain’s communities are facing three big challenges: a living standards crisis, a jobs crisis and a climate crisis.…
Predistribution
Why we still need tax credits (as well as pre-distribution)
Would you be surprised if I wrote a blog piece supporting the speech on social security made by…
A tale of three speeches – Clinton, Obama and Miliband
What a marvellous week for those of us who avidly enjoy the art of the speech. At the…
Eight reasons why Labour should think twice about predistribution
Like many, I read Ed Miliband’s New Statesman interview with interest. Some parts of it pleased me greatly,…
This is a crisis for most – but it’s still boom time for those at the top
We’re almost at the mid-point of a national tragedy: a Tory Government during an economic crisis. On its…
The public are firmly behind the idea of ‘predistribution’
Ed Miliband’s speech yesterday has attracted some comment, especially over his use of the term ‘predistribution’. Putting debates about language…
Ed Miliband and predistribution: what does it mean and could it work?
Mark Ferguson writes about Ed Miliband’s new ‘big idea’:predistribution. This is the idea that the market, rather than the state,…
A few words about words
Talk is cheap – especially in the blogosphere. But this doesn’t mean that words don’t matter. Sometimes words…
Ed Miliband’s new buzzword is “Predistribution” – it sounds good, but…
Yesterday Ed Miliband rolled out a new buzzword yesterday – predistribution – in his interview with the New…
