By Pippa Hyam | 6 September 2010
My first job 20 years ago was working in the London offices of Friends of the Earth. The words of a poster on the wall ...read more
By Mark Stephens | 29 July 2010
Housing Benefit –never previously a rival to house prices as a topic for ill-informed discussion at dinner parties – briefly captured the public imagination in ...read more
By Asheem Singh | 28 May 2010
Focus groups didn't like the Big Society, allowing Labour to make rare comedy capital in an otherwise drab campaign by caricaturing it as a DIY ...read more
By Rob Greenland | 28 May 2010
It’s clear that the Coalition Government wants the Big Society to be its legacy. Gone are the days of Big Government. In its place, Big ...read more
Prevent: still a work in progress
By Ewan King | 19 January 2010
By Ewan King and Christopher Reed
The attempted bombing of a transatlantic flight on Christmas Day has led to a renewed round of soul searching about ...read more
This time we must guarantee to stave off worklessness
By James Purnell | 10 December 2009
By James Purnell and Graeme Cook
In the last few months the rise in unemployment has started to slow. This is welcome news, indicating that Britain ...read more
Should services be conditional?
By Dion Watts | 9 November 2009
Local authority chief executives chose a phrase with an interesting double meaning when they settled on ‘challenging behaviour’ as the theme for their conference last ...read more