Nick Pearce

Nick Pearce is professor of public policy & director of the Institute for Policy Research, University of Bath, and former director of the Institute for Public Policy Research.

Is the Coalition government truly radical?

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.

By Nick Pearce

/ 21 Dec 2010

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

By Nick Pearce

/ 10 Dec 2010

Seven character tests for Britain's Labour leadership

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.

By Nick Pearce

/ 22 Nov 2010

This Enchanted Isle: place, politics and England

Where are the everyday symbols of a leftish, pluralist Englishness?

By Nick Pearce

/ 19 Nov 2010

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

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.

By Nick Pearce

/ 15 Nov 2010

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

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?

By Nick Pearce

/ 25 Oct 2010

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

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.

By Anthony Barnett and Nick Pearce

/ 29 Jul 2010

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

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.

By Nick Pearce

/ 22 Jun 2010

Multiculturalism and citizenship: responses to Tariq Modood

* Nick Pearce, Institute for Public Policy Research * Sunny Hundal, New Generation Network *** Nick Pearce, Institute for Public Policy Research An ambiguous rescue A new book on multiculturalism by one of

By Sunny Hundal, Nick Pearce and Nick Johnson

/ 20 May 2007