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Nick Pearce
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Follow Nick on TwitterNick Pearce is the Director of IPPR, having rejoined the institute in 2010 after serving as Head of the Policy Unit at No 10. An author and regular commentator on public policy in broadcast and print media, Nick writes on a wide range of issues, from social justice, public service reform and identity politics to the future of social democracy.
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Nick's Blog November 2010
Nick's Blog November 2010
Monthly Archives: November 2010
If you want to know who the real ‘squeezed middle’ are, take a look at this data-rich, stat-packed new report from theResolution Foundation.
Returning from paternity leave, Ed Miliband has set out his stall on how Labour will rethink its policies under his leadership. Most leaders of the opposition establish policy reviews of one kind or another, to wipe the policy slate clean. David … Continue reading
Ken Worpole has this nice post at Our Kingdom about a new book to which he has contributed, Towards Re-Enchantment: Place and Its Meanings.
The Twentieth Century Society (full disclosure: I am a member) has the unenviable task of defending 20th century architecture. I mean unenviable in two senses: thankless, and often fruitless. Witness Gateshead Car Park or the Tricorn Centre in Portsmouth.
I was interested, if a little bemused, to read David Laws’ account of the coalition negotiations, serialised from his forthcoming book 22 Days in May.
A day on from the media blitz, proper analysis of the government’s actual proposals for welfare reform can begin. Yesterday, ippr published an initial response to the white paper, but new aspects of the government’s plans are still coming to light.
Object campaigns against the pornification of society. Not to the taste of many libertarians, but a worthy Radically Big Society nominee for its superb and successful campaign to have lapdancing clubs reclassified as sex-encounter establishments for the purposes of licensing … Continue reading
Not as far as we can tell, according to the Department for Work and Pension’s own research (PDF).
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