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Well, what an extraordinary weekend! From the brilliant extemporary speech by Tim Smit describing his new Eden Project of the north – at Morecambe in…
At the New Stateman’s Regional Development Conference on ‘The Age of Levelling Up’ in Birmingham last month, Royal Society of Arts director Andy Haldane spoke…
Many people ask me what “people powered homes” are. It started as a by-line for the first community share offer as Leeds Community Homes (LCH)…
“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854 Not so Fred Goodwin, or too many others that bring our…
Reading through Boris Johnson’s extraordinary statement – more a scream of rage – resigning from Parliament, you can’t help noticing the parallels with Donald Trump…
“Remember though, that earlier this year Bloomberg Economics estimated that Brexit was costing the UK economy £100bn a year in lost output. Reversing or ameliorating…
Leading politicians and policymakers from across the political spectrum will be flocking to York for the Big Tent Ideas Festival next week, to be held…
The debt ceiling crisis has again brought into focus the perennial gap between what the government spends and what it accumulates in taxes, and the…
There are those among us – me included – who so dislike technocracy and technocrats in general that we would probably opt for populism, almost…
Trying to interest children in politics may sound ridiculous, but that’s to misunderstand what we mean by ‘politics’. Politics can not be an academic exercise…
For the past five Monday evenings, I’ve been spending some time in the pub: to be precise, the Angel on the Green pub on York’s…