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Tory Voters Back Rent Control – Proof the Housing Market is Bust

16/11/2016

Can there ever have been a worse regulated natrual monopoly than land? CONTINUE READING

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A New Populism? Talk Like You Mean It

11/11/2016

The starting point for a new populism is to understand just how difficult it will be. CONTINUE READING

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Time for a Labour-led alliance for Brexit?

8/11/2016

On Brexit, you need to go to where people are, rather than where you would like them to be. There may be no other way to douse the flames many are fanning. CONTINUE READING

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Remote, illiterate, self-interested – Government’s own experts slam UK digital programme

2/11/2016

Systemic failings in the Government’s digital programmes cost us more than £2bn of lost savings. CONTINUE READING

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Servant or Master? What Will be our Relationship With a Digital Economy

1/11/2016

I worry when digital experts talk gleefully about ripping down barriers and creating a brave new world. CONTINUE READING

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MacKenzie hijab row: Does Regulator’s Ruling Miss Wood for Trees?

22/10/2016

To use one young Muslim woman as a battering ram for an argument that is as much about privatising Channel 4 as anything else is crass, unhelpful and should be actionable. CONTINUE READING

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London and the Railways – Time to Change Direction?

18/10/2016

Time to stop London being the obese diner at Table UK, sitting opposite hungry or even malnourished other regions. CONTINUE READING

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This Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

12/10/2016

These young trade unionists are not alone and they point to an optimistic future CONTINUE READING

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We Must Fight This Retreat From Britain’s Liberal And Open-minded Traditions (or Who Will Save Us?)

11/10/2016

Brexit is bad, the Tories are worse and Corbyn must lead. But there is something new and important in this epic editorial CONTINUE READING

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Unpaid Interns – Still with Us, Still an Issue

5/10/2016

All most of us have to sell is our labour. Why is there not more fuss about unpaid interns. CONTINUE READING

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