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	<description>IPPR Director Nick Pearce blogs from the heart of progressive thinking in Britain</description>
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		<title>The reality behind Britain&#8217;s &#8216;austerity myth&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 11:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some truly daft things are sometimes written about the UK’s fiscal position. One such offering is yesterday’s strategy note on austerity from Tullet Prebon, the bond vigilantes. It claims, in lurid prose, that Britain’s austerity is a myth – mendacious &#8230; <a href="http://www.ippr.org/?p=782&#038;option=com_wordpress&#038;Itemid=17">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Government extends welcome hand to a &#8216;family-friendly economy&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 11:55:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although I would’ve written a very different Queen’s speech to the one Her Majesty delivered today (see my alternative speech for the Staggers blog), I was pleased to see that IPPR recommendations from 2007 on flexible working and parental leave &#8230; <a href="http://www.ippr.org/?p=777&#038;option=com_wordpress&#038;Itemid=17">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Omnishambles? Time to wind back to the 1970s</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 14:38:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the 1970s, Number 10 Downing Street and the adjacent Cabinet Office have, in different ways at different times, hosted units performing two core functions: the provision of political policy advice to the prime minister and strategic, cross-cutting policy development. &#8230; <a href="http://www.ippr.org/?p=773&#038;option=com_wordpress&#038;Itemid=17">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>New world order: Pirate voters and post-crash politics</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:19:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All over Europe, the post-war “catch-all” political parties of left and right are in decline, losing vote share to new parties and other rising forces across the political spectrum. Centre-Right parties are struggling to contain surges of anti-immigrant, Eurosceptic and &#8230; <a href="http://www.ippr.org/?p=766&#038;option=com_wordpress&#038;Itemid=17">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Newham just the first in housing benefit bind</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:42:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The story about Newham council seeking to house 500 families in Stoke and other parts of the country because of insufficient affordable housing in the borough has reignited the debate about the government’s housing benefit cuts, amid accusations of ‘social &#8230; <a href="http://www.ippr.org/?p=763&#038;option=com_wordpress&#038;Itemid=17">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bag yourself a back-catalogue bargain</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:41:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I occasionally suggest articles and books that might interest readers of this blog.  Today I’m plugging IPPR’s own oeuvre, as we are having a major sale of paid-for publications. This is the last chance for people to get hold of &#8230; <a href="http://www.ippr.org/?p=759&#038;option=com_wordpress&#038;Itemid=17">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Notes on a resilient social democracy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A key tenet of 20th-century social democratic thinking was that capitalist economies are inherently unstable and prone to cyclical crises. Unlike the Marxist left, social democrats did not believe that these crises would eventually prove terminal for capitalist relations of &#8230; <a href="http://www.ippr.org/?p=752&#038;option=com_wordpress&#038;Itemid=17">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Minister needs to fact-check female unemployment story</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:13:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In stories briefed to The Times and the Mail today, employment minister Chris Grayling claimed that large number of previously ‘stay at home mothers’ were deciding to look for work – leading to a big reduction in what’s called ‘economic &#8230; <a href="http://www.ippr.org/?p=745&#038;option=com_wordpress&#038;Itemid=17">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Next cut is the deepest: a spending review preview</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:50:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whitehall is limbering up for the next spending review, due to be published before the end of 2013. It will shape a large part of the political debate at the coming general election, since it will set out government spending &#8230; <a href="http://www.ippr.org/?p=737&#038;option=com_wordpress&#038;Itemid=17">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>New shoots suggest Japan is ready for blossom season</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 11:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Cameron is due to visit Japan next week and will meet his counterpart, Japanese PM Yoshihiko Noda. This is an important opportunity for British policymakers to reassess what’s happening in the world’s third-largest economy. For years now, perceptions of &#8230; <a href="http://www.ippr.org/?p=733&#038;option=com_wordpress&#038;Itemid=17">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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