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About Nick Pearce

Nick Pearce is Director of the Institute for Public Policy Research.

Articles by Nick Pearce

Thursday 5th January

The national question and the greatest living English poet

Nick Pearce, 5 January 2012
Can Englishness be articulated to a progressive project? Perhaps its time to turn to Geoffrey Hill, a poet immersed in the complexities and richness of England.
Monday 24th October

Orthodoxy is wrong: it can pay to default

Nick Pearce, 24 October 2011
In the 1990s, Argentina was an IMF poster boy, but it soon became a byword for the failures of the Washington Consensus. Tying its currency to the dollar, cutting public spending and selling its assets led to a deepening debt spiral from which it could not escape, until it defaulted.
Thursday 22nd September

Lib Dem tax policies - egalitarian?

Nick Pearce, 22 September 2011
The junior partner in the Coalition have been keen to show in their conference this week that their tax policies will deliver a more equal Britain. But are they really progressive?
Thursday 5th May

From the expenses scandal to AV: the end of a political cycle and how to move on

Nick Pearce, 5 May 2011
The expenses scandal brought forth various demands for political reform. The AV referendum can be seen as the end of this political cycle. Even if electoral reform is now off the agenda, progressives should reflect on this experience, and begin a new push for change
Wednesday 16th March

'The prince as wolf, the beast as king'

Nick Pearce, 16 March 2011
The left may need to tap into rooted feelings and communal, human traditions but it needs to tread carefully or become an animal itself.
Sunday 13th March

The Prime Minister's reorganisation of 10 Downing Street is flawed

Nick Pearce, 13 March 2011
When Gordon Brown was Britain's Prime Minister Nick Pearce headed his Policy Unit in No 10. Now he casts an experienced eye over David Cameron's attempts to guide the Coalition's governing strategy
Wednesday 26th January

The politics of stagflation and the 'squeezed-middle' debate

Nick Pearce, 26 January 2011
Yesterday's shocking figures for GDP in the last quarter of 2010 have changed the dynamics of British politics. The so-called 'squeezed middle' debate has only just begun and now sits at the heart of the politics of stagflation.
Tuesday 21st December

Is the Coalition government truly radical?

Nick Pearce, 21 December 2010
We must question the assertion that the Coalition government is a radical administration, on a par with the 1945 Attlee and 1979 Thatcher governments. That judgment can only be made retrospectively, in view of the legacy the Con-Dems leave behind.
Friday 10th December

The morning after the fight before: What next for Gen' 2010?

Nick Pearce, 10 December 2010
We now have the image that will define this age of retrenchment and rebellion, splashed across all the frontpages this morning. Even Grosvenor Square '68 can't compete with that kind of iconography. But the real images of the night were not of the violent black-flag brigade, nor of the middle class heirs to the '68ers, but of London's black teenage youth.
Monday 22nd November

Seven character tests for Britain's Labour leadership

Nick Pearce, 22 November 2010
The battle over the direction of travel of the Labour Party begins now and will determine its pitch to the UK electorate in four years time.
Friday 19th November

This Enchanted Isle: place, politics and England

Nick Pearce, 19 November 2010
Where are the everyday symbols of a leftish, pluralist Englishness?
Monday 15th November

On the fifth day Britain's Coalition was Created and...

Nick Pearce, 15 November 2010
Is the Lib Dem negotiator David Laws being tendentious in his account of how the Coalition came about in May? A Labour insider reports that it is economical with the truth.
Monday 25th October

Fair's Fair? The divided soul of the Coalition will test Labour more than it yet realises

Nick Pearce, 25 October 2010
What does the fury directed at the IFS last week from Nick Clegg and assorted right-wing columnists, bloggers and think-tanks really tell us about the clash between left and right in Britain?
Thursday 29th July

Women, politics and power - gender equality is not just a woman's issue

Anthony Barnett and Nick Pearce, 29 July 2010
Ahead of the UK Feminista summer school this weekend, OK co-editor Anthony Barnett and director of IPPR Nick Pearce discuss what can be done to rectify the woeful under-representation of women in UK politics and public life.
Tuesday 22nd June

A Defining Budget II: It is simply incredible to call this “fair”

Nick Pearce, 22 June 2010
The UK's Coalition has delivered its first and potentially defining budget under the banner of fairness. How do its figures stack up? An insider from Brown's policy team responds.
Sunday 20th May

Multiculturalism and citizenship: responses to Tariq Modood

Sunny Hundal, Nick Pearce, and Nick Johnson, 20 May 2007
openDemocracy writers engage Tariq Modood’s argument that a developed multiculturalism can incorporate the recent focus on Muslim experience and national identity to enrich democratic citizenship
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