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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 January 2011
Nick's Blog January 2011
Monthly Archives: January 2011
The writer Peter Ackroyd – whose own name means ‘dweller in the oak forest’ – located the origin of the English imagination in the forest glades: ‘The mark or symbol of the hawthorn tree is to be found in the … Continue reading
Yesterday’s shocking figures for GDP in the last quarter of 2010 – showing a contraction of 0.5% (or 0% if the bad weather effects are stripped out) – have changed the dynamics of British politics. As most of the newspapers … Continue reading
Most of the commentary on Ed Balls’s appointment as Shadow Chancellor has focused on his role as Gordon Brown’s right-hand man during Labour’s time in office. More instructive, perhaps, is to look at the period between 1992 and 1997, when … Continue reading
Tim Horton has a very nice piece in the Guardian about the “angry middle” and how people compare themselves with others in the income distribution. He makes some acute observations at the end of the piece about the political importance of … Continue reading
The Institute for Fiscal Studies has issued an important analysis of the government’s proposed Universal Credit (UC), which shows that it will improve the incentive to work for most people, especially single people and first earners in couples (and particularly those … Continue reading
Next week, the Localism Bill gets its second reading in the House of Commons. In all the furore about spending cuts, relatively little attention has been paid to this bill’s radical proposals for creating directly elected mayors in 12 big … Continue reading
A happy New Year to readers of this blog. One way or another, 2011 promises to be a significant year for democratic reform in the UK. Most importantly, there will be a referendum on whether we should move to the … Continue reading
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