This is the number saved from homelessness, not the number of homeless
People in temporary accommodation are not the homeless. People in temporary accommodation are the people the welfare state has saved from homelessness.
City homes for young people
We could make many more affordable flats for young people available in cities, especially London.
What’s the policy response to an ageing population?
No, the answer does not have to be importing people.
After the Rose Garden 3: Growth and Investment
Growth and investment make for a post which is easy to write, but tricky to realise.
Walid El-Khatib on the Global Enlightenment Forum
A couple of weeks ago, I had the opportunity to speak at the Global Enlightenment Forum organized by The Adam Smith Institute in London.
This has been the aim all along
You know that idea that inequality is the grand terror? That the good society - even The Good Society - is one ruled by economic equality?
Rachel Kennedy on the Global Enlightenment Forum
Following our individual research papers, the Global Enlightenment Forum served as the perfect culmination of collective academic thought surrounding the topic of Enlightenment philosophy and the contemporary Middle East.
Insisting upon bureaucratic efficiency seems fair
That the bureaucracy itself, when presented with all the relevant information, has to make a decision in less than geologic time seems sensible to us. It also doesn’t seem like a huge imposition. Nor even a loosening of necessary protections.
Rediscovering Enlightenment at the Global Stage
Two weeks ago, on April 12, I had the amazing chance to attend the Global Enlightenment Forum (GEF), which was hosted in the University of London's historic Senate House
Why industrial policies don’t work
Chlorine-washed chicken is not, in fact, an important issue. Every bag of washed salad in the European Union - and UK - has been washed in chlorinated water.
Ending the March/April chaos
The mania of roadworks and construction projects that bedevil every Spring is partly caused by the desire of local governments to spend their financial budgets rather than have them expire as the financial year ends in early April.
Getting Dick to go Viking on the system - it’s the only way
As we suggested yesterday about the planning system: Freedom from the system itself will only apply to those bureaucratic micturation schemes.