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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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By chance, on the weekend that Ed Miliband was extolling the virtues of George Cadbury’s commitment to his workers in a speech on the economy, a new history of the Barrow Cadbury Trust – the grantmaking foundation that bears the … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
During my stint as a special adviser to David Blunkett in the Home Office, I had the good fortune to work with the late Bernard Crick. Bernard had been appointed to advise the home secretary on the development of policies and … Continue reading
As the government gives way to Ed Miliband’s call for a public commission of inquiry into the English riots, I thought it would inform the debate to collate some useful pieces of research and writing on riots, social disorder and … Continue reading
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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
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
With Christmas approaching, a number of ippr’s staff took to the streets on Wednesday for some carol singing of a different kind. They joined London Citizens in their action at the Disney store in Oxford Street, to sing some carols about … Continue reading
This week’s Radically Big Society award goes to Cage Against the Machine, whose campaign to bring a truly silent night to Christmas this year is gathering pace. The odds are still long – 8-1 from Ladbrokes – that Cage’s silent masterpiececan beat the … 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.
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