AI is fundamentally different from other technologies – it is set to unleash a vast number of highly sophisticated ...

‘There’s a lot of people in the EU who supply gaps in the service industries, the land workers … fantastic work ethic … lovely people … There’s a lot of rubbish talked about benefits and the fact ...

This essay first appeared in the IPPR and WWF publication Putting People at the Heart of the Green Transition. The UK target of net zero is one we must meet, but our path to meeting it is also ...

New analysis from the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) finds that a combination of welfare reforms, rising numbers of children in the private rented sector and a lack of investment in ...

The UK is facing a precarious and volatile period for global trade. The volume of global goods flows is back on the rise after a difficult 2023 caused by inflation and interest rate hikes. But with ...

In this paper we trace the emergence of a poorly understood social challenge and one which symbolises Britain’s broken ‘social settlement’: the continued rise in working poverty since the beginning of ...

Technological change is a good thing. It has brought exponential gains to living standards and is the foundation of modern society. Yet unmanaged technological change has always come with risks and ...

Neoliberalism is many things: a failing but widespread economic common sense, an attempt to insulate the political from the economic, an approach to modernity that seeks discipline and control through ...

Labour MPs Jon Cruddas and Liam Byrne discuss the everyday pressures facing people in Britain today. They question the pessimistic notion of 'broken Britain' and argue that a centre-left response lies ...

A single working-age benefit seems not only desirable, but also feasible, not necessarily as a short term reform, but certainly within a 10-year time frame. Interest in the prospect of radical benefit ...

In a time of greater political pluralism, British politics is no longer well served by a voting system that was designed for a two-party era. Nor are the interests of British democracy. Since the ...

Excluded children are the most vulnerable: twice as likely to be in the care of the state, four times more likely to have grown up in poverty, seven times more likely to have a special educational ...