Senior Research Fellow Laybourn-Langton Laurie Laurie leads a major project developing policy responses to environmental collapse. His work also covers political economy and how shifts occur in …
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Staff
Environment
Housing & infrastructure
IPPR
Mainstream political and policy debates have failed to recognise that human impacts on the environment have reached a critical stage, potentially eroding the conditions upon which socioeconomic …
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Report
Environment
Eight years of austerity have left our public services and social safety net in tatters. This state of affairs is a political choice. It’s a choice predicated on the principles of a small state and …
Progressive review
Full
Public services
IPPR
Digital technology is delivering a huge range of benefits to businesses, citizens and wider society. Platforms – online applications that intermediate between the provider of a service and its users …
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Report
Economy
Commission on Economic Justice
IPPR
The product of a two-year enquiry into the UK economy, the final report of the IPPR Commission on Economic Justice presents a 10-part plan for economic reform to achieve prosperity and justice …
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Briefing
Economy
Commission on Economic Justice
IPPR
Established in autumn 2016 in the wake of Britain’s vote to leave the European Union, the aim of the IPPR Commission on Economic Justice was to examine the challenges facing the UK economy and to …
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Report
Economy
Commission on Economic Justice
IPPR
Since the second world war and end of empire, British foreign policy has been moored to two powerful partners. Our ‘special relationship’ with the US has dominated our defence policy, through the …
Progressive review
Full
Power & politics
Laurie Laybourn-Langton : Margaret Beckett, you are a former Foreign Secretary and Secretary of State for the Department for the Environment, Farming & Rural Affairs (DEFRA), among other roles …
Progressive review
Full
Environment
Ours is the age of global environmental collapse. Resources are being consumed at around 1.5 times the Earth’s ability to regenerate them. We are living through the sixth mass extinction and nearly …
Progressive review
Full
Environment
The British economy is at a critical juncture. Its future success depends on overcoming two major, interrelated problems – long-term structural weaknesses in investment, productivity and trade, and …
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Report
Housing & infrastructure