This report explores the greater role that local authorities can and should play in stimulating investment and economic growth in their areas, and sets out recommendations for models of capital investment which could deliver much-needed returns for the North and other regions.

Incorporating both published performance data and interviews with people working at all levels of the UK's foreign investment system, this new report asks how the current system could improve outcomes for businesses and local areas in the north of England.

IPPR went to Manchester as part of our Condition of Britain project (13 May 2013), along with head of Labour's policy review Jon Cruddas MP. After meeting staff and parents at a SureStart Centre in Benchill we visited a community centre in Wythenshawe, where Jon Cruddas spoke about families and children.

Jon Cruddas, head of Labour's policy review, joined IPPR in a listening event with St Mungo's and Revolving Doors service-users as part of our Condition of Britain project (London, 25 April 2013). Listen to some of the participants relating their experiences and ideas for change.

IPPR spoke to Steve Smith, vice chancellor of Exeter University and former president of Universities UK, to find out what he thought of the arguments put forward by Michael Barber in An avalanche is coming: Higher education and the revolution ahead, and what he thinks the future of higher education will look like.

Following the launch of a major new IPPR publication, report author Michael Barber explains that  'it's a time for bold thinking at university level' and that if  you 'stand still in the face of an avalanche, you get run over'.

Speaking at IPPR's London office, shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper made a keynote address on the Labour party's approach to immigration policy.