Freedom of Information act requests are now revealing the full cost of the off-balance sheet Private Finance Initiative (PFI) structures used to finance so much "public" investment in the last 20 years. If we ever find out, how much will such schemes end up costing Africa?
The political moment for reform of the banking and shadow-banking industries seems to have passed. UK politics is in thrall to a powerful bank lobby that scores victory after victory
The left has usually found two ways of building a good society: growth and redistribution, or the definition and articulation of a good state of affairs. A period of opposition is a time to return to the second: to win arguments rather than outcomes (This is part of the IPPR's New Era Economics se
In 1971 a counter-insurgency manual set out an operational response to non-violent direct action protest movements as well as military insurgencies like the Provision IRA in Northern Ireland, drawing on the UK's colonial experience. Today, it holds a surprise for a new reader.
Without massive ongoing public support the banks will fail. We should take the consequences seriously, they extend much further than bonuses
The distributional aspects of the UK government's loans/fees package looks attractive
How could parliament ram through the fees increase in three hours plus a short session in the Lords tomorrow?
The explosive conflict over higher education demands a rethink across British society about what it should deliver and who should pay for it.
The British government lost control of the capital last night; it was not supposed to do so.
A new generation’s protest is part of a deeper political sea-change in Europe. But a London student demonstration - and witnessing a democracy that seeks to protect itself from its own young children - convince Bronwyn Hayward that this movement needs older people too.
Viewed from Scotland, England's failure to win the world cup reveals a land that has lost itself, led by a political class of blaggards. But perhaps a different kind of bid for 2030 could show the way for a much better, more original and attractive country.
