Pre-Budget Discussion on National Renewal
On Tuesday 8 October, we ran an event in Parliament to help MPs to get to grips, before the Budget, with what it will take to deliver national renewal and […]
How to Become a Billionaire
There is a rather wonderful story about billionaires. According to this story, a small number of exceptionally gifted and hard-working people, through their own talent and dedication, create and build […]
Are We All Radicalised?
The recent riots, as we wrote last week, show that a small minority of the UK population has been radicalised – they are prepared to break the law, to commit […]
Gold, Peas and Carrots
Can Labour deliver the promised decade of national renewal while following its Fiscal Rules? By Mark E Thomas and Vince Gomez. When he became Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt set out new […]
What if We Shrug?
There are many arguments for taxing the extremely wealthy more. Perhaps the simplest is that while most normal people pay tax of up to 40% on their income (or more), […]
Operation Save Little Dog
When it was clear Johnson was on the way out, his allies launched Operation Save Big Dog. This article explores what we might call Operation Save Little Dog – […]
The Rational Policy-Maker’s Guide to the NHS at the Senedd
Following our successful launches at Westminster and Holyrood, this is an approximate transcript of the launch of The Rational Policy-maker’s Guide to the NHS at the Senedd in 17 April, […]
Re-wiring for Progress
Why many of our most important Institutions are working against us, and what we can do about it Until the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) struck, like many people, I had […]
What the Extreme-Right May be Planning
The wealthy market fundamentalists who fund the right-wing parties and think tanks have different objectives from the UK population as a whole. These think tanks propose such policies as abolishing […]
Reasons Not to Tax the Wealthy?
We have written extensively about the extent and consequences of wealth inequality. For example this article, Why We Can’t Afford to Ignore Wealth Inequality, explained that wealth inequality is […]