As Glasgow’s most famous tower blocks are razed, we’re again being asked to celebrate destruction of old notions of housing provision. We should treat it as a different opportunity entirely.
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The Conservative Party is the Harry Houdini of British politics – it puts itself into impossible situations, apparently for the sheer thrill of it
It’s unfair to call Lord Adonis a political ‘Judas’. He’s a policy specialist who has always aimed for the centre ground.
There is ongoing disagreement among OECD countries as to whether foreign aid spent in-house counts.
The baby boomer generation has fixed the future.
The BBC has called for a national debate on what it is for. The public needs to speak and the politicians need to listen.
The government’s recent Green Paper spells our a vision of far smaller BBC. Coincidentally, this is just what Rupert Murdoch and his newspapers have campaigned for over decades.
If you want to see how the market failure model works, look across the Atlantic at PBS and NPR and be afraid.
Two parties. Two rivals. Two plans. One surprisingly similar outcome.
A “triple lock” election commitment to keep taxes down is just pushing the pursuit of revenue into other areas – with the threat of more to come.
The out-of-the-blue move to a living wage in the UK exemplifies the ditching of methodical public policy processes for manipulative hype and spin, the ‘hyper-democracy’ that brings politics into disrepute.
MPs will vote Monday on a welfare bill which imagines a world where work is a gilded path away from poverty.
The way the UK thinks about workplaces and workers means that those learning a trade are at a disadvantage. And that’s bad news as we attempt to add 3m apprentices to the mix.
By limiting financial support to smaller families, the government is doing its best to stop undesirables from reproducing.
In his budget, George Osborne said that we are all in this together. A look at the evidence shows that we’re not.
The budget contained some major housing reforms, but the chancellor had no answer to the sector’s number-one problem.
Chancellor’s promise of £9 an hour is nothing more than false advertising.
The arithmetic for town halls and previously endangered Whitehall departments is now distinctly rosier.
With this budget, George Osborne has shown he’s a sophisticated political operator.
A living wage grabs the headlines, but sluggish productivity is a harder nut to crack than that.
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