News & Insight

2 January 2017

Labour is too weak to win and too strong to die. It needs to find a new cultural centre ground and consider how to work with others, writes Andrew Harrop The politics of 2016 may have been frenetic but now an uneasy calm has...

21 December 2016

What a difference a year makes. Few would have predicted just 12 months ago that by the end of 2016 the UK would have backed Brexit and the US plumped for Trump. And not only do we have a new...

21 December 2016

As the UK seeks to build stronger bilateral relationships in the aftermath of the vote to leave the European Union, China has been top of the list. George Osborne famously ramped up the UK’s relationship with China and heralded the beginning...

16 December 2016

Think tanks from the right and left of politics spend a lot of their time arguing with each other. But there is plenty we agree on too, and the need for social mixing and a shared common life is something that...

15 December 2016

While Brexiters talk of taking back control from Brussels, the real shift we need is from Westminster to mayors, first ministers and council leaders 2016 has seen some extraordinary events take place. A new prime minister and  government. Donald Trump becoming...

13 December 2016

There have been many calls over the last few weeks and months for Labour to rediscover patriotism and embrace the idea of a distinctively English – or possibly British – version of socialism, consistent with national identity. This is of...