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Future Industries: Technology Led Growth For Britain In The 2020s
This paper sets out thinking about UK future industries and how they can be incorporated into the Labour Party’s emerging Industrial Strategy. We have identified six industries which are...
On The Path To Power?
Christabel Cooper takes a deep dive into the May 2022 election results Labour have enjoyed a steady 4-5% lead over the Conservatives in the polls for the last few...
Rebuilding Labour And The Nation: May 2022
How far have perceptions of Labour changed since September 2021? What factors are behind its recent successes in the polls? Where is Labour lagging behind? This research was commissioned...
Thinking in Straight Lines
This paper sets out to help answer the question that many in Labour and on the left in general have been asking in recent years. With people’s attitudes swinging...
Labour and the Past, Present and Future of Work
Most of us spend most of our time at work. Work is what we do, where we go, who we know and how we get on in life. But...
Building the Foundations for Labour’s Future
Britain in 2022 is recovering from the pandemic, facing new geopolitical uncertainty and a cost of living crisis – all while having to deal with the long tail of...
Rebuilding Labour And The Nation
A report for Progressive Britain by Chris Curtis, Opinium Research, September 2021. Does Labour have a chance at the next general election? Where do voters like the party’s offer...
Learning about place
Understanding lifelong learning and social mobility in Covid Britain
Learning about place: Understanding lifelong learning and social mobility in Covid Britain is a major new report undertaken by Professor Graeme Atherton...Public Value Management
Institutional design and decision for the common good
In a world where the human experience is increasingly overshadowed by diversity and danger and which is currently confronting the twin...
Left Unity
Manifesto for a progressive alliance
Progressive politics is in crisis. Tainted by its accommodation to the neoliberal revolution, the progressive left is struggling to respond as the temporary consensus around...Fragmented Catalonia
Divisive Legacies of a Push for Secession
The Catalonian secessionist crisis was the most noticeable event that Spain offered to Western politics in the opening decades of this century. Within...Will Germany show solidarity? Yes, but…
The German government still has to seek approval for EU bonds
How much of and what kind of help are Europeans willing to provide reciprocally during the Corona crisis? This...Heading for disaster
How Britain's Brexit collision course with the European Union will exacerbate the Covid crisis
We need to talk about Brexit again. The negotiations on Britain’s future relationship with the EU are...Towards a new pensions settlement — Volume III
The international experience, volume III
Delivering a stable income in retirement should be the primary focus of any workplace pension system. This is notably not the case in most Anglo-Saxon...Warring Fictions
Left populism and its defining myths
Warring Fictions is a critique of Corbynism and left populism more broadly, using the root causes of Labour divisions since 2015 as a case...Pathways and legacies of the secessionist push in Catalonia
Linguistic frontiers, economic segments and media roles within a divided society
The Spanish Supreme Court has handed down sentences 0f between nine and thirteen years to nine Catalan separatist...
Fragments in the Ruins
In a world where the human experience is increasingly overshadowed by diversity and danger and which is currently confronting the twin challenges of a global recession and pandemic,...