Labour can't build 1.5 million homes without addressing the planning backlog and a skills gap that has built up in local authorities over decades.
Dec 2, 2024
The government has put housing at the heart of unlocking growth in the UK, committing to deliver the biggest housebuilding programme in two generations. The deliverability of building 1.5 million homes, the overhaul of the UK’s planning system and…
The tragic death of two-year-old Awaab Ishak in 2020 should never have happened. Awaab’s case, which resulted from prolonged mould exposure in his family’s rented social home, made it clear that more needs to be done to avoid such a preventable…
In the sphere of HR and industrial relations, the UK is a global superpower – but it might be the hidden force that’s holding back our economy.
Nov 27, 2024
The Harvard academic and US senator, Daniel Patrick Moynihan once said: “If you want to build a great city, create a university and wait 200 years”. While its proud and great city location has a history stretching back to Roman times, Lancaster…
In the autumn of 2022, I was appointed independent chair of the Net Zero Review. I had been asked by the prime minister to look at how net zero could be delivered in a way that was both more effective and efficient for business and economic growth.…
Nov 19, 2024
As we grapple with the ongoing threat of Mpox and the scars of Covid remain raw, there is reason for cautious celebration: we are on the brink of eradicating a brutal disease that has tormented Africa for generations.
Sep 11, 2024
Extending cooperative models of ownership for core community assets can open the path to true decentralisation.
Apr 24, 2024
Dogger Bank, powered by SSE, will become the UK's largest wind farm – and power over six million homes.
Nov 9, 2023
When you take on hope, you take on its opposites and opponents: despair, defeatism, cynicism and pessimism. And, I would argue, optimism. What all these enemies of hope have in common is confidence about what is going to happen, a false certainty…
Jul 17, 2023
Dumpster-diving with Patrick O’Hare, the anthropologist fighting for our right to what people throw away.
Jul 30, 2022
Fifty years after the Limits to Growth report was published, the concept of post-growth remains largely taboo.
Jun 29, 2022
