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Liberals everywhere are struggling, not least because of their image as unambitious defenders of the status quo. Could the radical politics of land and the ideas of Henry George offer a route out of the political wilderness? Despite rarely appearing...
Much is unfair in Britain today. But one of our country’s most enduringly unjust features is the poor’s clobbering by VAT. This tax is applied universally but unlike income tax the amount we pay is not based on what we...
Austerity, at least in terms of the overall spending envelope, is over. However, this will not mean the end of cuts – some Departments can still expect to see reductions in next year’s spending review, as the NHS takes up...
As the UK looks to enhance its reputation as a ‘global leader in free trade’ after Brexit, the International Trade Secretary, Liam Fox, has argued that Britain should look to strike free trade deals with emerging countries. So far, much...
Before the Budget, our Chief Exec and Director, Claudia Wood, warned that the Chancellor’s housing proposals were in danger of being ‘a series of half measures’; that failed to address the depth and breadth of the housing crisis. This arguably...
Writing 20 years ago at Demos, Charles Leadbeater introduced to the mainstream the then-fringe idea of combining business and charitable aims to address social challenges. This included championing the potential for social entrepreneurship to solve modern welfare problems that the...
If there was ever any doubt, the recent publication of statistics by the Gambling Commission reaffirmed the extent to which gambling, in one way or another, is woven into the fabric of British society. Six in ten of us have...
We are using less cash each year. In 2015, cash made up only 45% of payments in the UK. First came plastic, then chip and pin, and then contactless technology, which is slowly turning our wallets, phones, rings and even...
Today saw the release of the second estimate for GDP and revised figures for business investment in the first quarter of 2017. They show that growth slowed sharply in the first quarter of the year, and that on a per...
