On Friday, the financial services regulator (the Financial Conduct Authority) published its latest Financial Lives Survey, a nationally representative survey of nearly 18,000 people that serves as a state of the nation report on the UK’s personal finances. It provides insights into our attitudes to managing money, accessing important financial
“The future is already here. It’s just not very evenly distributed.” William Gibson The last decade has seen society transform at breakneck speed. Often, this has been credited to the “Fourth Industrial Revolution” (4IR), a term describing the rise of digital technologies, big data, and automation. Yet behind the headlines
On Monday, May 19th, the Government introduced the Restoring Control over the Immigration System white paper, the latest piece of legislation designed to meet Labour’s 2024 manifesto commitment to reduce net migration. This is an area in need of policy intervention and the political timing following the local elections is
The Netanyahu government has been a disaster – for Israel and its security, for the Palestinians, and for the prospects of a wider regional peace. It is time for it to go and for Israel to have the new leadership its people want and deserve. The 7 October atrocities –
On a blaring hot Saturday, Labour modernisers from across the country gathered in a glitzy London conference hall to attend the first Progressive Britain Annual Conference held during a Labour government in over a decade. As Darren Jones noted, the atmosphere was decidedly distinct to the Annual conferences of past
The small town of Ranya in Iraqi Kurdistan once loomed large in British foreign policy and now matters a great deal to Labour’s migration policy. The Kurdish uprising against Saddam Hussein’s genocidal dictatorship began there in 1991 and was nearly crushed before John Major pioneered a safe haven over the
One year ago, the UK and our allies defended Israel from an unprecedented direct attack on the Jewish state by Iran and its terrorist proxies – with the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) playing a lead role in choregraphing this onslaught of missiles. But, as well as being an ongoing
The Labour government is realising that the economic structural constraints on British economic policy making are real. Deteriorating global economic circumstances have forced the Treasury to enforce spending cuts to departments in order to remain within the fiscal rules. Bond market shifts, the backlash to taxation plans and the importance
In early March 2025 Prime Minister Donald Tusk of Poland called for his country to have access to nuclear weapons and vowed to increase massively the size of its army. Within a fortnight Poland and the Baltic states announced their intention to withdraw from the Ottawa Convention banning anti-personnel land
“You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.”- Anthony Eden Defence is an insurance policy against an uncertain future. No sane citizen would ever want their nation to go to war, but history suggests that the
