Pamphlets

Andrew Blick reviews An Uncertain Future: Law Enforcement, National Security and Climate Change by Chris Abbott, ORG.

This report recommends a preventative security policy in the face of climate change.

Jon Bright reviews: The Power of Belonging: Identity, citizenship and community cohesion by Ben Rogers and Rick Muir of ippr.

Ben Rogers and Rick Muir examine our nation's collective identities - what might be lost as they change or thin out, and what could be done to stregthen them.

Jon Bright reviews: Does Britain need a population policy? by Alasdair Murray of CentreForum.

Alasdair Murray dissects and demystifies the immigration debate, and shows why we need a policy of decentralisation to fix the problems of immigration.

Neal Lawson (London, Compass): Too often those who want to see a new democratic settlement talk in abstracts, and making it easy for our opponents to write us off as merely ‘the chattering classes'. While we zip up our anoraks, they get on with the ‘real business' of running the country.

So it's helpful when we stumble into practical issues and debates about everyday political issues that support the cause of democracy. This is what I did when I started to research a pamphlet for Compass on the future of the NHS. Naively, I started out with a plan to write a blueprint by the tried and tested method of talking to all the biggest brains in the sector, and then put it together as a winning hand on how the left should run health services.