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

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 ...

‘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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Across England, around 44 per cent of people who access homelessness services in England are aged 18–24. And young people are three times more likely to have experienced homelessness over the past ...

An insight into why we might privilege social justice, over criminal justice Prison does not only impact and harm those who are directly locked up; prisons affect all of us. Yet many of us don’t ...

After three years of a Conservative-led Coalition government, Tim Bale asks what is left of the modernisation of the Tory party and who among its leading lights might carry the torch for party ...

The leading think tank for the north of England has responded to the Chancellor’s plan for growth speech. Zoë Billingham, Director of IPPR North said: “The Chancellor’s laser focus on growing the ...

This report presents case studies of best practice in achieving sustainable consumption in the UK. These case studies exemplify ways in which people can be helped, encouraged or compelled to live more ...

Over the past few days and weeks, there has been lots of rather histrionic commentary about the UK’s economic situation as if the budget has created an economic disaster from which we’ll never recover ...

This report demonstrates that, despite the significant challenges facing it, the northern powerhouse already has the seeds of a flourishing 21st-century economy. It now needs a coherent industrial ...