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Shadow education secretary Stephen Twigg’s speech today had a vital job to do. How can we build on the very best aspects of Labour education reform – some of which has been continued by Michael Gove – while also identifying where the Tory version of education reform has fallen short? Gove and ...
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Progressive Capitalism
I have a lot of respect for David Sainsbury, gained from our time working together a decade ago at the Department for Trade and Industry, and I have also benefitted from a number of campaigns and organisations he has funded. So it was with some trepidation that I opened up his book Progressive Capitalism: How …
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Letter from … Ottawa
Canadian politics could be in for a change, as we now have three parties with strong leaders. Once again. Or so it seems. The venerable Liberal party, which got quite a drubbing in May 2011’s general election, has elected a dynamic and charismatic leader, 41-year-old Justin Trudeau, the son of the popular, albeit controversial, Pierre …
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Mutual nudge is a worrying fudge
The government’s support for mutuals appears skin-deep Karin Christiansen —In the nine months I have been general secretary of the Cooperative party, I have been listening to coalition pronouncements on mutuals with great interest and growing confusion. At first there seemed to be a will to explore new approaches to business and to public service …
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Big thinking for Labour on higher education
The last Labour government was right to reform student finance and to introduce tuition fees. The costs, like the benefits, of higher education need to be shared between the individual and the state. Tory-led reforms fail in not recognising the wider public benefits of higher education and the significance of widening access. However, one of …
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A good week for Labour
A fiercely political chancellor, George Osborne has long been a better reader of the opinion polls than steward of the nation’s economy. Unsurprisingly, he has homed in on public perceptions that Labour cannot be trusted to run the economy in general, and control spending on welfare in particular, and has used his time at the …
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Time for transparency
Are we about to see a transparency bill that doesn’t increase transparency? The government this week announced that it intends to introduce a political transparency bill before the summer recess. Now the first thing to understand about the proposed bill is that it will do next to nothing to increase transparency, and even less to …
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