Ed Miliband may have just pulled off the most unexpected trick of all: delivering a populist Labour stance on welfare. New research by the Fabian Society and the charity Crisis published today showed that there is overwhelming public support for a programme to tackle the root causes of housing benefit spending. Not only is this…
Protecting social security is central to many of the progressive ends dear to campaigners: poverty prevention and alleviation; collective insurance against bad luck; providing support for young, elderly and disabled people. But the public politics of social security have grown increasingly toxic, leaving those who wish to see it sustained unsure how to talk about…
David Cameron came to power promising to protect the NHS and also badged his coalition as ‘the greenest government ever’. Both promises have, to a large extent, become a source of ridicule for the coalition. But on both the NHS and on the environment, targets are currently a source of real concern for the prime…
The successes of Nigel Farage and UKIP in the recent local elections have already provoked much analysis. In particular, the three main parties are now engaging in an intensive period of soul searching as they think hard about how best to counter the numbers of voters opting for the anti-establishment, anti-EU party. A central component…
“This is a budget for an ‘aspiration nation’” according to George Osborne just a few week’s ago. The appeal to aspiration has been rolled out a number of times now by senior Conservative party figures. Cameron used it as he unveiled his ‘global race’ analysis during his conference speech. Gove uses it to advance his…
The end of politics is the attention-grabbing title of Douglas Carswell’s book. But the book ends without offering a genuine consideration of what politics is really for – just that it is broken. The book argues that government has got much bigger over the last few decades, providing and spending more to the detriment of…
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