RSS FeedNo striking at French polling stations | 03/05/12
One of the most common misconceptions the British hold about their closest continental cousins is that when they’re not on holiday they’re on strike. ...Read More
Tax Avoidance - Black and White or Shades of Grey | 24/04/12
Since the Chancellor’s Budget Speech on 21st March, the debate over tax avoidance has been raging across the media, provoking widespread furore from an array of different quarters. ...Read More
New Measures, Same Old Debate: The Security/Liberty Dilemma Lives On | 04/04/12
The Government’s proposals to introduce legislation that would require internet providers to give Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) access to personal emails has, as expected, created quite a stir, with the Big Brother Watch campaign group comparing the new measures to practices in states like China and Iran. ...Read More
Reflecting on Public Affairs | 27/02/12
I recently had the privilege of speaking to students at the School of Politics and International Studies at the University of Leeds, who had invited me back to talk about my reflections on politics and lobbying since I graduated from there several years ago....Read More
The impact of Boundary Changes | 16/02/12
Psephology, the scientific analysis of elections, is often viewed as an intellectual folly, with very little practical impact on the ground....Read More
Health and Social Care - Parliamentary Round Up - February 2012 | 24/01/12
Column by Rukayah Sarumi which appeared in the February edition of the English Community Care Association (ECCA) member's newsletter....Read More
The Edconomic Alternative | 20/01/12
Energised by a dose of caffeine, the promise of a politically-galvanised crowd and a speakers list including Ed Balls, Chuka Umunna and Ken Livingstone, I set off on Saturday morning to attend the Annual Fabian Conference, titled The Economic Alternative. ...Read More
Are we seeing the beginnings of a consensus around education? | 05/01/12
If we put aside the sniping from the usual suspects, is what we see emerging the beginnings of a cross party consensus around education? It would be refreshing and productive if it were. ...Read More
Industrial policy back in vogue – or did it ever go away? | 05/01/12
“I am being far more explicit than a Minister in the Coalition has been so far”. Those were the words which Universities and Science Minister David Willetts used during his speech at the Policy Exchange think tank on Wednesday 4th January....Read More
Private v. Public in the NHS – isn’t it time the debate grew up? | 28/12/11
Yesterday’s reports that a recently proposed amendment to the Health & Social Care Bill could see National Health Service foundation hospitals allowed to raise nearly half of their funding through private work have generated predictably stormy responses....Read More
