What if Labour Can’t Win?
The entire Labour Party leadership debate is being framed by the question “how can Labour win again?” But what if it can’t, asks Colin Talbot? There are several reasons for believing it might be...
View ArticleTackling alcohol related violence
Changes in the way that offenders are supervised, along with the increased availability of alcohol, are undermining attempts to support offenders with alcohol-related problems, explain Dr Rose Broad...
View ArticleHow radical are the post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals?
In September this year the United Nations will formally adopt a set of targets for global development to replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Carl Death examines the proposals to assess...
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Kids Company: a classic tale of start-up failure and the problems of the...
The sudden collapse of the high-profile (though rather small) Kids Company charity has been getting lots of headlines. Colin Talbot looks at what has gone wrong. A quick look at its history and its...
View ArticleGreece: the Paradox of power
Why doesn’t Greece reform? Dimitris Papadimitriou and Kevin Featherstone on why the Greek political system has contributed to the mess the country finds itself in. Over the past few years the inability...
View ArticleAre patients interested in pharmaceutical research?
It is important to involve patients and the public in pharmaceutical medicines research and development. Suzanne Parsons and Bella Starling examine who is interested, who is not and why. Involving...
View ArticleWelcome to citizenship?
Drawing on research for her book Making Citizens, Bridget Byrne explores how citizenship ceremonies often hear claims that the UK is a welcoming place, in contrast to new citizens’ actual experiences....
View ArticleThe End of the Parties?
Colin Talbot asks if we have reached a tipping point where ‘first past the post’ finally fails to hold together the two big coalitions that have dominated British politics for nearly a century ? Could...
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Mind the (nuclear skills) gap
Many workers in the nuclear industry are poised to retire – just as a major new nuclear building programme gets underway. Professor Andrew Gale and Professor Nawal Prinja consider the implications. The...
View ArticleManaging new nuclear – What’s new?
Stephen Wearne explores lessons to be learnt from the similarities and the differences between the start of the nuclear power era in the 1950’s and now. The structure of utilities, suppliers and...
View ArticleDisillusioned and disenfranchised – devolution in Manchester must rekindle...
Lois Brown is a year 11 student at Priestnall High School in Stockport. She has just undertaken work experience at IPPR North and has written from her perspective about the challenges facing devolution...
View ArticleTargets? More targets! Even less change and more continuity in the...
Dave Richards, Colin Talbot and Ewan Munro explore target setting in Government. “Everyone has to think of their responsibilities with regard to the dreadful events that happened at the Staffordshire...
View ArticleGood Cop, Bad Cop – Can a healthcare regulator be both?
Joy Furnival looks at proposed changes to the health watchdog in the UK and asks if the system will work. Last month, Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Health, announced that the healthcare...
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It’s school not social networks that will get the poor out of poverty
It’s not how mixed our social networks are that’s the key to reducing poverty, it’s broader issues of social isolation and inequality in education we should focus on, argues Nissa Finney. The people...
View ArticleIntervening in conflicts
Should governments send weapons or troops to conflicts in other countries? Professor James Pattison compares the ethics of supplying arms with militarily intervention. Western states are less likely to...
View ArticleWhat can history teach us about migration?
As the migration crisis continues to rock Europe, Tanja Müller looks back at a story from the Second World War, to see what the past can teach about current attitudes to those trying to make it to...
View ArticleRefugee crisis: An open letter to David Cameron and Teresa May
Academics Rob Ford and Maria Sobolewska have written an open letter, reproduced below and signed by 365 people, asking Prime Minister David Cameron and Homes Secretary Teresa May urging them to do more...
View ArticleSeeking affair. Must be available, resilient, safe, reliable, and secure
Daniel Dresner explores the fallout from the Ashley Maddison hack. Whether or not the Ashley Madison incident is a technical hack or the work of an insider with too much access and an axe to grind,...
View ArticleAre the Sustainable Development Goals the world’s biggest promise…. or the...
In New York the finishing touches are being made to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which are due to replace the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Here David Hulme explores what they...
View ArticleCan routine hospital care after self-harm save lives?
A new study has shown just how high the risks of suicide and all-cause death can be for patients who have self-harmed. Here Sarah Steeg and Pauline Turnbull, joint authors of the study, explain that it...
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