Disraeli Room

"... The state can no longer deliver its role as co-parent alongside the primary carer at this time of economic decline. And worse, with economic decline comes an increased birth rate and increased deprivation among children. Either mothers are going to be subjected to even more unbearable pressures, or we are going to have to find another way forward ..."

"... The Haldane-May ecological analogy does not actually tell us much about the mechanism by which instability spreads across the system. We believe that a more useful conceptual framework for the sudden collapse of the financial system is one that draws on the physical sciences to look at the correlated nature of networks ..."

"... There is something both deeply revealing and depressingly wrong about the language here. It may sound insignificant, but it’s the lingo of Whitehall and Westminster, the discourse of top-down government that assumes policy initiatives will be initiated within the usual circles of power and influence and systematically ‘delivered’ to the likes of you and me ..."

"... 5 people living together use, on average, less electricity and gas than 2 people do living alone, whilst their water use and waste production are the same as three single person households. Naturally people also take up less land when they live together ..."

"... APR is an advanced form of the single transferable vote system (STV) currently favoured by most reformers (such as the Electoral Reform Society). However, contrary to the common but mistaken received wisdom about PR systems, APR shows how a completely proportional system can contain single member constituencies at the same time as not wasting any votes ..."