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You are here Our people Richard Darlington
 
Richard Darlington

Richard Darlington

Head of News

Phone: +44 (0)20 7470 6122
Email: r.darlington@ippr.org
Twitter: @RDarlo
 

Areas of expertise:

  • Strategic communications
  • UK politics

Richard Darlington has written for the Guardian, Independent and New Statesman, and has appeared on Newsnight, the Today Programme, the Politics Show, Radio 5 Live and Sky News.

Before joining IPPR in 2011, Richard was head of the Open Left project at Demos and was Special Adviser to Labour's 2010 General Election Coordinator and Secretary of State for International Development, (Douglas Alexander MP). He was also Special Adviser at the Department for Education and Skills, and Senior Press Officer at the Department of Trade and Industry.

Richard has worked as Director of Communications for Creative Partnerships at Arts Council England and previously as Media Manager at IPPR. He has also worked at the TUC, T&G and National Union of Students.

He holds a Masters degree in Critical Theory from the University of Sussex.

 
 

Articles

Will the real David Cameron please step forward? - 21 May 2012

Author(s) : Richard Darlington

When will the coalition legislate for 0.7% overseas aid? - 10 May 2012

Author(s) : Richard Darlington

Vote 2012: Voting is a duty, not a right - 03 May 2012

Author(s) : Richard Darlington

Why has the coalition's aid bill been delayed again? - 24 Apr 2012

Author(s) : Richard Darlington

Don’t get carried away with headline fall in unemployment - 18 Apr 2012

Author(s) : Richard Darlington

UK unemployment will get worse before it gets better - 18 Apr 2012

Author(s) : Richard Darlington

UK unemployment will get worse before it gets better - 10 Apr 2012

Author(s) : Richard Darlington

A Queen’s speech for jobs and growth - 03 Apr 2012

Author(s) : Tony Dolphin, Graeme Cooke, Richard Darlington

The Youth Contract must be the beginning not the end - 28 Mar 2012

Author(s) : Richard Darlington

Comment: The 'granny tax' is right and fair - 23 Mar 2012

Author(s) : Richard Darlington

Budget 2012: Breaking down the benefits bill - 21 Mar 2012

Author(s) : Richard Darlington

An important intervention in the aid debate - 19 Mar 2012

Author(s) : Richard Darlington

Real men do housework - 12 Mar 2012

Author(s) : Richard Darlington

Living on the edge - 01 Mar 2012

Author(s) : Richard Darlington, Laura Bradley

New record high for NEETs in 2011 – but why? - 24 Feb 2012

Author(s) : Richard Darlington

For Neets, an unwelcome record beckons - 22 Feb 2012

Author(s) : Richard Darlington

Aid to India makes Britain great - 08 Feb 2012

Author(s) : Richard Darlington

Why has the coalition delayed its aid bill? - 01 Feb 2012

Author(s) : Richard Darlington

The days of double-digit poll leads are over - 24 Jan 2012

Author(s) : Richard Darlington

Is X Factor really the biggest threat to today’s teenage girls? - 22 Nov 2011

Author(s) : Richard Darlington

Somali pirates need jobs or jail, not ransom or death - 01 Nov 2011

Author(s) : Richard Darlington

Think tank plan to cut aid would cost millions of lives - 17 Oct 2011

Author(s) : Richard Darlington

Generation 2011 – the worst NEETs ever - 25 Aug 2011

Author(s) : Richard Darlington

Dodgy polling underpins child sexualisation review - 06 Jun 2011

Author(s) : Richard Darlington

Don't trade off bednets and body armour - 17 May 2011

Author(s) : Richard Darlington

Tribal British voters are a dying breed - 18 Apr 2011

Author(s) : Richard Darlington

Voters like AV, but only once they've tried it - 14 Apr 2011

Author(s) : Richard Darlington

The British voting system is broken - 04 Jan 2011

Author(s) : Richard Darlington

A crusade we can't afford to rubbish - 04 Sep 2006

Author(s) : Richard Darlington

 

Projects

Women across generations: expectations and aspirations