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This privacy policy tells you about your rights in relation to - [RP Consulting](https://www.respublica.org.uk/rp-consulting/) - What we offer Strategy development Governance reviews Ministerial ‘challenge’ sessions Public service reviews Impact evaluations What our clients say “ResPublica’s involvement with the Core Cities’ UK agenda has been important in moving the devolution agenda up a gear challenging both cities and Government to think differently about urban policy and how new solutions can unlock - [About ResPublica](https://www.respublica.org.uk/about-respublica/) - What we believe We believe in the common good and the development of real wealth that promotes both social and economic flourishing. To combat the concentration of wealth and power in the UK, we work for the greater distribution of agency and ownership. In order to heal the country’s social wounds, we seek the ties - [Response to the Industrial Strategy White Paper](https://www.respublica.org.uk/response-industrial-strategy-white-paper/) - Following the creation of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy in July 2016 and firing the starting gun for a string of sector deals, on the 27th November the Government set forth its vision for enhancing UK global competitiveness. The hotly-anticipated White Paper, running to 255 pages underlines the scale and severity of the - [Autumn Budget 2017](https://www.respublica.org.uk/autumn-budget-2017/) - Phillip Blond, Director of ResPublica, said: "Incremental underwhelming interventionism is probably the phrase I would use to describe the Budget. The big retail takeaway will no doubt be the stamp duty cut - it does however raise house prices and benefit the already owning more than those who wish to own. But the increase in price will - [Spring Budget 2017](https://www.respublica.org.uk/budget-2017/) - Social Care The Government has set aside £2 billion over the next three years for councils to tackle difficulties in the social care sector, with the aim of accommodating increased demand for care services, supporting care providers, and relieving pressures on the NHS. This funding comes with the expectation that councils, social care providers and - [Industrial Strategy priorities for the new Government](https://www.respublica.org.uk/eight-industrial-strategy-priorities/) - Confidently facing the economic challenges ahead The new Government has taken office against a backdrop of huge economic challenges. Global competition is increasing, the world economy is experiencing uncertainty, and there is a challenging Brexit process with implications not least for employment, trade, investment, regulation and key industries. At the same time the UK’s long-standing problems endure, including - [Social Reform priorities for the new Government](https://www.respublica.org.uk/social-reform-priorities-new-government/) - If the past 12 months have shown us anything, it is that we can no longer go on as we have before. The country is divided, and on many complex levels: Brexiteers are pitted against Remainers, job security against zero contract hours, communities against immigrants, the young against the old. At the heart of these - [ResPublica & the 2017 Election Social Reform](https://www.respublica.org.uk/general-election-2017-social-reform/) - ResPublica’s Social Reform programme seeks to address the defining political issue of our time: the great divides of wealth and power across the nation. Despite the prominence of Brexit in the public debate at this election, this broader issue will also be an important factor for voters in weighing up which party they believe is - [ResPublica & the 2017 Election Industrial Strategy](https://www.respublica.org.uk/general-election-2017-industrial-strategy/) - The outcry from business leaders at the market intervention in the Conservative manifesto triggered a charge of being ‘anti-business’. This is far too simplistic and misses three main drivers of business polices in the manifestos: markets, industrial strategy and Brexit. The first charts new ground but reflects changes some business leaders have not woken up - [General Election 2017](https://www.respublica.org.uk/general-election-2017/) - From Labour's support of our campaign to take on high-stakes, high-street gambling, to widespread coverage of our influence on the Conservative manifesto, ResPublica's impact has been evident across the election campaign. As the vote approaches, our team turns its attention to what a new Government might mean for the UK, and for our key policy programmes. - [ResPublica & the 2017 Election Devolution and the Regions](https://www.respublica.org.uk/general-election-2017-devolution-cities-regions/) - The election campaign has seen some commonly-aired criticisms of the UK’s subnational government, on unfair funding and out-of-date business taxes. Labour focuses on recreating the regional institutions abolished by the Tories, while the Tories look to build on their post-2010 reforms, especially in counties. At at an existential juncture for the UK, all parties acknowledge problems - [About us](https://www.respublica.org.uk/about-us/) - We believe in the common good and the development of real wealth that promotes both social and economic flourishing. To combat the concentration of wealth and power in the UK, we work for the greater distribution of agency and ownership. In order to heal the country’s social wounds, we seek the ties that bind and - [White Paper on housing](https://www.respublica.org.uk/respublica-response-white-paper-housing/) - Commenting on the implications of the White Paper for each of the core themes of ResPublica’s Housing Programme, Edward said: On boosting new supply “For too long, the delivery of new homes has not kept up with demand across all types of housing. As the Government has here recognised, we need more affordable, comfortable and secure homes - [Work With Us](https://www.respublica.org.uk/work-with-us/) - ResPublica is one of the country’s most successful public policy think tanks. We’ve achieved this level of success by being radical in thought and persuasive in communicating our evidence based proposals. Since its foundation, ResPublica has had an unrivalled impact on public policy. The vast majority of our work has been adopted by Government and - [Autumn Statement 2016](https://www.respublica.org.uk/autumn-statement-2016/) - Phillip Blond, Director of ResPublica, said "Today’s Autumn Statement was an attempt to marry Reaganomics to Rooseveltian intervention. Continuity was the message of the day when it came to tax cuts for corporations, low-paid individuals and motorists – with the strategic reductions promised by Osborne confirmed and continued by his replacement. As America looks set to - [Our Priorities](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-priorities/) - Industrial Strategy The British economy does not produce the widened prosperity or opportunity we need. Productivity is wildly unequal and uneven in its distribution – cutting off communities outside of London from access to high quality jobs and to real social mobility; investment is low and too short-term – the UK invests a smaller percentage - [Queen's Speech 2016](https://www.respublica.org.uk/queens-speech-2016/) - Devolution The Buses Bill will give Metro-mayors in other English cities the same powers to strategically plan and operate public transport that London has long possessed. Applications from other local authorities without mayors will be considered on a case by case basis. Critics of the status quo have noted that in the regulated transport systems of - [Budget 2016](https://www.respublica.org.uk/budget-2016/) - The Chancellor announced that the National Infrastructure Commission will prioritise transport projects in the North, including an HS3 link between Manchester and Leeds, and improvements to the M62. The budget also paid adequate attention to promoting the Northern Powerhouse. As a leading proponent of cities devolution, ResPublica is clearly supportive of this. However, this budget - [The 2015 Comprehensive Spending Review](https://www.respublica.org.uk/the-2015-comprehensive-spending-review/) - City Devolution ResPublica is "leading the field in devolution" according to Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government Greg Clark. Building on our seminal Devo Max - Devo Manc report last year, ResPublica has published three further calls for increased devolution to cities around the UK in 2015: The Missing Multipliers; Power, People and - [North](https://www.respublica.org.uk/north/) - In the coming months, ResPublica will be opening a dedicated office in the North of the UK. This will enable ResPublica to build a powerful platform for the advocacy of unity, spread of regional prosperity and strengthening of society. Check back soon to find out how we're getting on. - [Delivery & Returns](https://www.respublica.org.uk/delivery-and-returns/) ## Products - [Virtuous Banking: Placing ethos and purpose at the heart of finance](https://www.respublica.org.uk/virtuous-banking-placing-ethos-purpose-heart-finance/) - [Make or Break](https://www.respublica.org.uk/make-or-break/) - [A Community Right to Beauty: Giving communities the power to shape, enhance and create beautiful places, developments and spaces](https://www.respublica.org.uk/a-community-right-to-beauty-giving-communities-the-power-to-shape-enhance-and-create-beautiful-places-developments-and-spaces/) - [In Professions We Trust: Fostering virtuous practitioners in teaching, law and medicine](https://www.respublica.org.uk/in-professions-we-trust-fostering-virtuous-practitioners-in-teaching-law-and-medicine/) - [Devo Home: A double devolution of housing to people and places](https://www.respublica.org.uk/devo-home-a-double-devolution-of-housing-to-people-and-places/) - [Devo Max - Devo Manc: Place-based public services](https://www.respublica.org.uk/devo-max-devo-manc-place-based-public-services/) - [Climbing the Credit Ladder: Short-term loans as a path to long-term credit](https://www.respublica.org.uk/climbing-credit-ladder-short-term-loans-path-long-term-credit/) - [Markets for the Many: How civic finance can open up markets and widen access](https://www.respublica.org.uk/markets-many-civic-finance-can-open-markets-widen-access/) - [The Community Renewables Economy: Starting up, scaling up and spinning out](https://www.respublica.org.uk/community-renewables-economy-starting-scaling-spinning/) - [Holistic Mission: Social action and the Church of England](https://www.respublica.org.uk/holistic-mission-social-action-church-england/) - [Putting People into Personalisation: Relational approaches to social care and housing](https://www.respublica.org.uk/putting-people-personalisation-relational-approaches-social-care-housing/) - [Power to the People: The mutual future of our National Health Service](https://www.respublica.org.uk/power-people-mutual-future-national-health-service/) ## Events - [Policies for Neighbourhood Renewal](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/policies-for-neighbourhood-renewal/) - WATCH THE EVENT RECORDING Our latest report ‘A Modest Proposal for the Restoration of Neighbourhoods’ calls for a radical shift in the UK's approach to regeneration and renewal, one that can give residents a genuine stake in their neighbourhoods by building asset wealth. The report argues for longer-term place-based strategies, powered by Mayors and devolved - [Eastern Powerhouse | Opportunities for Growth in the East](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/eastern-powerhouse-opportunities-for-growth-in-the-east/) - Launch of the Eastern Powerhouse annual economic monitor of the region. Speakers: Peter Aldous MP, Co-Chair, East of England APPG Jo Churchill MP Tom Hunt MP James Palmer, Chair, Eastern Powerhouse More speakers TBC REGISTER - [The need for an Inependent Football Regulator](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/playing-by-the-rules-the-governance-of-english-football/) - Panel to discuss the need for an independent regulator for English football, based on our recently produced report ‘Playing by the Rules’ about Football Governance in England, on behalf of the campaign For Fans Too. Our panel will discuss the progress of the White Paper as we move towards the final year of this Government’s - [The Future of Conservatism](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/the-future-of-conservatism/) - Panel event with Danny Kruger MP, Phillip Blond and more TBC. REGISTER - [Higher Skills for Strategic Industries](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/higher-skills-for-strategic-industries/) - Discussing the need for a focus on skills for strategic industries, such as the Agri-food sector Speakers: EFRA Shadow Minister (Confirmed) David Exwood, Vice President, NFU Dr Marius Ostrowski, Executive Director, Lifelong Education Institute (Report Author) Prof. Ken Sloan, Vice-Chancellor, Harper-Adams University REGISTER - [In Conversation with Danny Kruger MP; “Covenant”](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/in-conversation-with-danny-kruger-mp-covenant/) - Danny Kruger MP will be discussing his latest book, 'Covenant', with ResPublica Director Phillip Blond. REGISTER - [Report Launch: Lifelong Learning Pathways for the Agri-Food Sector](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/report-launch-lifelong-learning-pathways-for-the-agri-food-sector/) - In partnership with Harper-Adams University, and the School of Sustainable Food & Farming Launch event of the latest report by the Lifelong Education Institute, which explores the opportunities and challenges facing skills provision in the agri-food sector. The report outlines a model of Lifelong Learning Pathways designed to open up training and retraining opportunities for - [British Intellectual Conservatism: Past and Present](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/british-intellectual-conservatism-past-and-present/) - DOWNLOAD THE CONFERENCE PROGRAMME This conference seeks to analyse the British conservative intellectual traditions that often go unnoticed in the background of C/conservative politics. There is a strand of thought that posits the Conservative Party and conservative thought as anti-intellectual. Indeed, within the party there used to be a suspicion towards intellectuals, due to the - [Getting Trade Agreements Right](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/getting-trade-agreements-right/) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x67V0D7NHJI In partnership with NFU and RSPCA, we are hosting an online event to discuss future trade deals, and how we safeguard standards and recognise regulatory differences between jurisdictions in a modern trading environment. Speakers: George Eustice MP, former SoS Food and Rural Affairs Daniel Zeichner MP, Shadow Minister, Food, Farming and Fisheries David Bowles, - [The REUL Bill and its potential impact on Asbestos Policy](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/the-reul-bill-and-its-potential-impact-on-asbestos-policy/) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWk3fYm9zqE The Bill includes the potential to revoke over 140 regulations relating to a wide range of health and safety including the Control of Asbestos Regulations. This online event will discuss the implications of the REUL Bill for the management of asbestos in the UK and what needs to be done to ensure the optimum - [The Right Response; Conservative ideas to tackle perennial poverty](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/the-right-response-conservative-ideas-to-tackle-perennial-poverty/) - REGISTER The Joseph Rowntree Foundation and ResPublica have worked together to publish an essay collection by 12 Conservative MPs, putting forth bold ideas to tackle perennial poverty in the UK. The essay collection will be launched at an event in Parliament, bringing together many of the authors, alongside policy stakeholders, to discuss these ideas, and - [Investing in Skills for Life](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/investing-in-skills-for-life/) - PROGRAMME AND REGISTRATION The Lifelong Education Commission is transforming into the Lifelong Education Institute. Attend the Conference to learn about our vision for the future. Speakers The Rt Hon Chris Skidmore MP Dame Ann Limb Margaret Greenwood MP, Chair, Adult Education APPG Tom Bewick, CEO, Federation of Awarding Bodies Iestyn Davies, Pro Vice-Chancellor, University of Wales Trinity - [Making LSIPs Work](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/making-lsips-work/) - REGISTER One of the key provisions of the Skills and Post-16 Education Act was the creation of Local Skills Improvement Plans. These are designed to: Set the key priorities to make post16 technical education or training more responsive and closely to local labour market needs Provide a representative employer view of the skills most needed - [ESOL for Skills Report Launch](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/esol-for-skills-report-launch/) - REGISTER The Lifelong Education Commission's latest report, 'ESOL for Skills', calls for a much bigger focus on enhancing the provision of English for Speakers of Other Languages courses, not just to ensure social integration, but as a vital component of a strategy for economic growth. Better delivery of ESOL for settled immigrants and for new migrants, - [In conversation with.... Lord Blunkett](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/in-conversation-with-lord-blunkett/) - REGISTER In the wake of the publication of the Report by the Labour Party's Council of Skills Advisers, the Lifelong Education Commission is pleased to welcome Lord Blunkett to its online seminar series. Lord Blunkett will offer comments on how government and business can work together to boost training provision and productivity across the country. - [In conversation with.... Sir Philip Augar](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/in-conversation-with-sir-philip-augar/) - REGISTER The Lifelong Education Commission is delighted to welcome Sir Philip Augar, Chair of the 2019 Post-18 Education and Funding Review, as the next speaker in its online seminar series. Sir Philip will offer an overview of the state of the policy landscape after the enactment of the Skills and Post-16 Education Act, followed by - [Report Launch - UK Trade Policy & Animal Welfare](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/report-launch-uk-trade-policy-animal-welfare/) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEWyqeKplwg ResPublica, with the kind support of the NFU and the RSPCA, have produced a policy report, arguing that the UK can and must go further than the recent trade deals with Australia and New Zealand to ensure that animal welfare and environmental standards in food production are maintained in the UK. In the - [Report Launch - The Future of Higher Technical Education](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/report-launch-the-future-of-higher-technical-education/) - HTQs and IoTs have significant potential to boost the take-up of higher technical education, supported by a number of other policy initiatives including the Lifelong Loan Entitlement, the Lifetime Skills Guarantee and Local Skills Improvement Plans. In this report, kindly supported by the University of Salford, the Lifelong Education Commission is making recommendations which will - [In conversation with.... Michael Gove MP](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/in-conversation-with-michael-gove-mp/) - The Lifelong Education Commission is running a series of monthly online talks, moderated by the Chair, Chris Skidmore MP, covering Lifelong Learning, and all things related to policy around Education and Skills. In this monthly session, we are happy to be welcoming Michael Gove MP, Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing, and Communities, to - [Report Launch - Learning Ecosystems](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/report-launch-learning-ecosystems/) - The Lifelong Education Commission's latest report seeks to explore how a place-based approach to education and skills can transform lifelong learning. This builds on the experience and practice of partners in Doncaster to establish a local ‘Talent and Innovation Ecosystem’. Raising skill levels is a key driver behind Doncaster’s strategy to level up deep-seated inequalities - [Online Safety Bill | Panel Discussion](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/online-safety-bill-panel-discussion/) - https://youtu.be/Ilg3_4h5c3c The Online Safety Bill is currently being scrutinised by the Parliament's Joint Committee. ResPublica is putting together a panel to discuss key aspects of the Bill with the Chair of the Joint Committee, Damian Collins MP, and representatives from Ofcom, Civil Society, and Business. Main talking points How can we best safeguard children online - [Evidence Session | Pathways to lifelong learning](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/evidence-session-pathways-to-flexible-learning/) - REGISTER HERE In preparation of the Lifelong Education Commission's first report, we will be hosting online Evidence Sessions to hear from experts on the field. These Evidence Sessions will be run in a Select Committee format, with invited Experts providing their evidence and views and Commissioners asking follow-up questions. This Evidence Session will focus on - [In conversation with Minister Luke Hall](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/levelling-up-with-education-and-skills/) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXOTmVd-uRU&t=3s One of the most crucial elements that can help turn around places and contribute to the Government's Levelling Up efforts, is focussing on Education and Skills. The provision of Lifelong learning, tied to local needs, has a direct link to innovation, growth, and wider societal benefits. Luke Hall MP, Minister for Regional Growth and - [Evidence Session | Lifelong Education Commission](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/evidence-session-funding/) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY6pcK8feDQ In preparation of the Lifelong Education Commission's first report, we will be hosting online Evidence Sessions to hear from experts on the field. These Evidence Sessions will be run in a Select Committee format, with invited Experts providing their evidence and views and Commissioners asking follow-up questions. This Evidence Session will focus on how - [Rethinking social security](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/rethinking-social-security/) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y7c0nsihKA&t=3s ResPublica, with the support of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, are organising an online anti-poverty conference with Conservative MPs and prominent academics in June, with five panels spread over four weeks. The Conference will aim to platform and discuss centre-right ideas for tackling, ameliorating, and possibly ending the different types of poverty that continue to - [How best to tackle unemployment](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/how-best-to-tackle-unemployment/) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7z-x1PA9IQ&list=PLepLGbzJ3__yxsq0SS2QNZxjs98c0Z-2d&index=5 ResPublica, with the support of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, are organising an online anti-poverty conference with Conservative MPs and prominent academics in June, with five panels spread over four weeks. The Conference will aim to platform and discuss centre-right ideas for tackling, ameliorating, and possibly ending the different types of poverty that continue to - [Revisiting family policy](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/revisiting-family-policy/) - ResPublica, with the support of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, are organising an online anti-poverty conference with Conservative MPs and prominent academics in June, with five panels spread over four weeks. The Conference will aim to platform and discuss centre-right ideas for tackling, ameliorating, and possibly ending the different types of poverty that continue to blight - [The inequalities of place](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/the-inequalities-of-place/) - ResPublica, with the support of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, are organising an online anti-poverty conference with Conservative MPs and prominent academics in June, with five panels spread over four weeks. The Conference will aim to platform and discuss centre-right ideas for tackling, ameliorating, and possibly ending the different types of poverty that continue to blight - [Asset Inequality vs Income Inequality](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/asset-inequality-vs-income-inequality/) - ResPublica, with the support of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, are organising an online anti-poverty conference with Conservative MPs and prominent academics in June, with five panels spread over four weeks. The Conference will aim to platform and discuss centre-right ideas for tackling, ameliorating, and possibly ending the different types of poverty that continue to blight - [In conversation with SoS Gavin Williamson | Lifelong Learning](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/in-conversation-with-sos-gavin-williamson/) - https://youtu.be/7XADONIp8Qg On 26th May 2021, our Lifelong Education Commission, welcomed the Secretary of State for Education Gavin Williamson and the Minister of Apprenticeships and Skills Gillian Keegan, to discuss the Government's White Paper 'Skills for jobs: lifelong learning for opportunity and growth'. The Rt. Hon. Chris Skidmore MP and Phillip Blond (Director, ResPublica) joined the - [The future of post-liberalism; an international seminar](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/the-future-of-post-liberalism-an-international-seminar/) - Societal, political, and economic turmoil appear to be the norm for the foreseeable future and the situation is only being enhanced by the effects of the current pandemic crisis. A paradigm shift is much needed, for societies and governments, national and local, to be able to address the issues that will continue to arise. Joined - [Lifelong Education Commission Launch](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/lifelong-education-commission-launch/) - https://youtu.be/1srRL8Ant_Y You can find Chris Skidmore's full speech here. Former Universities Minister Rt Hon Chris Skidmore MP will launch a new Lifelong Education Commission at ResPublica. The Commission will seek to recommend how barriers to lifelong learning can be removed, what future investment is needed to support this and what regulatory change is needed to - [Green Energy for Clean Growth](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/green-energy-for-clean-growth/) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSNFaLOTrC4 For more than a decade, we have witnessed a paradigm shift in the global energy sector. Since the Climate Change Act became law in 2008, the UK has cleaned up its energy mix faster than any other major world economy. The UK’s support for renewable energy and decarbonisation is a success story and the - [A new path for post-liberal schooling in the UK](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/post-liberal-school/) - https://youtu.be/qboFNXHqVhU Schools have rarely been out of the spotlight during the past 12 months, but many of their problems long predate the pandemic. The inequality of provision; wrangles over the politics of class, race and identity; the tunnel vision of examination grades and university entrance as the sole arbiters of success: these and more - [Post Brexit food trade and food security](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/post-brexit-food-trade-and-food-security/) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54olq67oPIs&feature=youtu.be The UK has finally agreed a deal with the EU, and Brexit is now done. The ‘free trade and cooperation agreement’, which came into operation on January 1st, means no tariffs or quotas will be introduced on British food exports or European imports. While this sounds like good news for Britain’s food security, - [Beyond the failures of liberal feminism](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/beyond-the-failures-of-liberal-feminism/) - Feminism is at a crossroads. In terms of rights and representation, things have never been better for women in the UK. But ‘progress’ is not linear – in fact, ‘progress’ is an illusion. And it is becoming increasingly apparent that a liberal doctrine that prioritises freedom above all else is not necessarily the answer to - [A new social contract for Education and Skills](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/a-new-social-contract-for-education-and-skills/) - Long before the outbreak of the coronavirus, the public discourse about the UK’s education and skills system was focussed on whether it is fit for present purpose or indeed equipped to face the challenges of the future: automation; the Fourth Industrial Revolution; and the future of work. In some respects, Covid-19 has accelerated these issues. - [Post-liberalism in the UK](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/post-liberalism-in-the-uk/) - https://youtu.be/jJzmQOUdY8M Societal, political, and economic turmoil appear to be the norm for the foreseeable future and the situation is only being enhanced by the effects of the current pandemic crisis. A paradigm shift is much needed, for societies and governments, national and local, to be able to address the issues that will continue to arise. - [The Future of Place-Based Devolution in England](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/the-future-of-place-based-devolution-in-england/) - https://youtu.be/enAL1BXttWs The event will aim to be a high-level discussion on the future of place-based devolution in England. Despite most large metro-regions in England having secured devolution deals, central government has failed to deliver radical reform at the pace and scale required. Many places including mid-sized cities, districts, and counties have been left behind. - [Why a National Asbestos Database can and should be established](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/why-a-national-asbestos-database-can-and-should-be-established/) - We have called for Government to establish a central register of all asbestos currently in place in public buildings across the UK (including schools, hospitals and social housing). In response to this the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) stated: ‘It is not clear what additional benefits a national database would have over [existing practice]. Given - [Tomorrow's Democracy](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/tomorrows-democracy-conference/) - Join us for Tomorrow’s Democracy, a conference on Monday 5th November, in the City of Newport, South Wales. We are delighted to be partnering with Newport City Council to deliver Tomorrow’s Democracy, the inaugural event of what is hoped to be an annual Festival of Democracy in Newport. The conference will explore where democracy is today and where it is headed next, - [What do automation and AI mean for the future of work?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/what-do-automation-and-ai-mean-for-the-future-of-work/) - Discussion Summary: Automation and the evolution of artificial intelligence have created considerable public apprehension, with research predicting that almost 30% of jobs could be at high-risk of being replaced by 2030. But, when utilised effectively, AI and automation can boost productivity (very much needed in the UK), open-up new work opportunities (with two jobs created - [Backing Beauty: What should our towns and cities look like in the future?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/backing-beauty-what-should-our-towns-and-cities-look-like-in-the-future/) - Discussion Summary: In ResPublica’s 2015 report ‘A Community Right to Beauty’ we made policy recommendations with the aim of provoking fresh thinking about the planning and design of the built environment. We proposed a range of new powers and incentives to support the democratic discernment of what makes a neighbourhood beautiful, and communities’ ability to - [Fixed Odds Betting Terminals: The costs of delaying the £2 stake reduction](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/fixed-odds-betting-terminals-the-costs-of-delaying-the-2-stake-reduction/) - Discussion Summary: In May 2018, the Government announced the reduction in the maximum stake on Fixed Odd Betting Terminals (FOBT) from £100 to £2. This was an important win for Parliamentarians, local communities, families, individual and industry bodies, who have been campaigning for a stake reduction. However, from the Government’s announcement, it appeared that the implementation - [Knife, acid and scooter crime: What can be done?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/knife-acid-and-scooter-crime-what-can-be-done/) - Discussion Summary: More than 40,000 knife crimes were recorded in England and Wales for the year to March 2018 — up 16% on the previous year - the highest number since records began in 2011. Alongside this, the number of reported acid attacks in London rose six-fold between 2012 and 2017, while the number of - [A vision and policy Programme for Britain Beyond Brexit](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/a-vision-and-policy-programme-for-britain-beyond-brexit/) - A series of short pitches from the 2020 Conservatives authors of “Britain Beyond Brexit: a programme for national and Conservative Renewal” with a Keynote Address from Rt Hon Penny Mordaunt MP, Secretary of State for International Development and Minister for Women and Equalities. Speakers: Phillip Blond, Director, ResPublica (Chair) George Freeman MP Tom Tugendhat MP - [Devo London: What policies does London need to succeed?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/devo-london-what-policies-does-london-need-to-succeed/) - We are delighted to be joined by a fantastic panel of speakers, including: Phillip Blond, Director, ResPublica (Chair) Cllr Nickie Aiken, Leader, Westminster City Council Paul Scully MP, Conservatives Vice Chair for London Jasmine Whitbread, Chief Executive, London First Professor Tony Travers, LSE London Join us at the Library of Birmingham from 3:45pm until 5pm on - [The New and the Lost Conservative Voters: How can the party get a majority?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/the-new-and-the-lost-conservative-voters-how-can-the-party-get-a-majority/) - We are delighted to be joined by a fantastic panel of speakers, including: Katy Balls, Political Correspondent, The Spectator (Chair); Dr Phillip Lee MP Lord Andrew Cooper Phillip Blond, Director, ResPublica Lara Spirit, Co-President, Our Future Our Choice Join us at the Library of Birmingham (Room 101) from 5:45pm until 7pm on Monday 1st October Register - [The North is on the rise: What more does it need?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/the-north-is-on-the-rise-what-more-does-it-need/) - Discussion Summary: With considerable anger still being voiced in The North because of recent chaos caused by changes to train timetables and following Northern leaders coming together and speaking with a single voice at the first Convention of the North, we seek to explore where the challenges and opportunities lie and what decisive action is - [Who’s in charge? Regulating English football for the good of the game](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/whos-in-charge-regulating-english-football-for-the-good-of-the-game/) - Discussion Summary: There have been many interventions by multiple agencies to reorganise English football. This has resulted in a number of incremental improvements, although not the kind of radical reforms which many have advocated. The problems are most evident when it comes to the regulation of professional football clubs. There continues to be a flow - [Our 2018 Conservative Party Conference fringe programme in one place](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/our-2018-conservative-conference-in-one-place/) - The venue for all of our events in 2018 is the Library of Birmingham. Sunday 30th September 17.45-19.00 – 2020 Conservatives Group hosted by ResPublica A vision and policy Programme for Britain Beyond Brexit Monday 1st October 15.45-17.00 – Devo London: What policies does London need to succeed? 15.45-17.00 - Fixed Odds Betting Terminals: - [Credit Emancipation - Report Launch](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/escape-velocity-growing-salfords-creative-economy-report-launch-2-2/) - Join us at the launch of our new report on Credit Emancipation. In this report we make recommendations to address the problems of unaffordable credit, pay-day loans, financial exclusion, indebtedness and in-work poverty and how they are negatively affecting individuals and communities in the UK. Our research argues that improving aggregate credit scores at the local - [Coming Home to Roost: The British Poultry Meat Industry After Brexit - Report Launch](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/escape-velocity-growing-salfords-creative-economy-report-launch-2/) - Join us at the launch of our new report on the British Poultry Sector post-Brexit. In this report we outline how the future of the British poultry sector is dependent on the final deal that is struck between the UK and EU upon our departure next year. The event is taking place on Thursday 6th September in Parliament (Room - [Why Liberalism Failed - Phillip Blond in Conversation with Professor Patrick Deneen](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/liberalism-failed-phillip-blond-conversation-professor-patrick-deneen/) - Join us in the Grimond Room of Portcullis House in Parliament on the evening of Tuesday 12th June for an 'In Conversation with...' event with our Director Phillip Blond and Professor Patrick Deneen. Professor Deneen teaches political philiosphy at the University of Notre Dame in the United States and is the author of a new - [Escape Velocity: Growing Salford’s Creative Economy - Report Launch](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/escape-velocity-growing-salfords-creative-economy-report-launch/) - ResPublica is launching its latest report Escape Velocity: Growing Salford’s Creative Economy. The report makes the case for continued Government and private sector investment in Salford’s digital and creative industries to safeguard and grow the already impressive cluster that has built up around MediaCityUK. The report also highlights Salford as a leading example of the value of cities - [Heartbeats on the High Street - Community Pharmacy Report Launch](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/case-community-pharmacy-report-launch/) - ResPublica is launching its latest report on Community Pharmacy in which we make the case for community pharmacies as a first port of call in primary care. Our research argues that the NHS can no longer afford to overlook the role that community pharmacies can play in reducing the cost burden on taxpayers and the - [Appetite for Global Success: How food and drink manufacturing through the industrial strategy can feed UK prosperity and serve global needs](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/appetite-global-success-food-drink-manufacturing-industrial-strategy-can-feed-uk-prosperity-serve-global-needs/) - ResPublica is launching its latest report on the importance and strength of the Food and Drink manufacturing sector and its role in the entire food chain, with the contribution to jobs, exports and economic footprint across the UK, including representing 17% of all manufacturing and 6.7% of exports. It outlines the challenges and opportunities for - [Backing Beauty Reception: Beauty and Public Policy](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/backing-beauty-reception-beauty-public-policy/) - - hosted by ResPublica, the Woodland Trust and the National Trust with Rt Hon John Hayes CBE MP, Minister of State for the Department of Transport Phillip Blond, Director of ResPublica Dame Helen Ghosh DCB, Director General of the National Trust Austin Brady, Director of Conservation & External Affairs of the Woodland Trust We believe that - [Britain's Global Future: the diplomatic impact of UK civil society](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/britains-global-future-diplomatic-impact-uk-civil-society/) - ResPublica is launching its latest report on British soft power and the vital role of institutions in British foreign policy. It explores the unique position of British institutions in stabilising nations and how, when properly configured and supported, institutions such as the BBC, British Council, universities and museums, can provide mediation in some of the - [The Case for Community Pharmacy, with the Rt Hon Sir Kevin Barron MP](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/case-community-pharmacy-rt-hon-sir-kevin-barron-mp/) - A rising demand for healthcare services, combined with an ageing population and the increasing prevalence of chronic ailments like diabetes, is stretching the capacity of NHS England. At the same time, pressures on central and local health budgets have restricted the ability to train, hire and retain enough doctors and nurses to meet the country's - [True North 2016: Realising the Northern Powerhouse](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/finding-true-north/) - On Friday 8th July, ResPublica's inaugural North conference Finding True North hosted over 250 leaders from across the North at the beautiful Lowry Theatre, Salford. Covered by Manchester Evening News, The Guardian, The Times, FT and on BBC Daily Politics, the conference saw the launch of A Manifesto for the North mapping out the next steps for the - [Boardrooms, bonuses and the bottom line: New models of corporate governance to secure stronger economic performance](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/new-models-corporate-governance/) - with Chuka Umunna MP, former Shadow Business Secretary Sir Vince Cable, former Business Secretary Richard Fuller MP, member of BEIS Select Committee Robert Hodgkinson, Executive Director, ICAEW Aimee Donnellan, Banking Correspondent, Sunday Times Jake Sumner, Senior Associate - Industrial Strategy, ResPublica (Chair) The UK is recognised as having a world-leading corporate governance framework, but domestic scandals - [Regional manufacturing and the Industrial Strategy, with Iain Wright MP](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/regional-manufacturing-industrial-strategy-iain-wright-mp/) - As the place dimension of industrial strategy comes into clearer view, we aim to develop a picture of the different models of growth that will suit different parts of the country, backed up by predictable and strong national regulation. Our focus is particularly relevant for industries with multiple sites across the UK, many in non-urban - [Britain’s Diplomatic Strength: Harnessing soft power in a post-Brexit world, with Crispin Blunt MP](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/britains-diplomatic-strength-harnessing-soft-power-post-brexit-world-crispin-blunt-mp/) - Institutions are uniquely effective at stabilising nations. When properly configured and supported, British institutions – such as the BBC, British Council, universities and museums – can provide mediation in some of the most socially, culturally and economically fragmented parts of the world. But this current and potential impact is not fully recognised by the UK. - [Tackling Air Pollution - A national and local approach, with Neil Parish MP](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/air-pollution-roundtable/) - A select committee report earlier this year confirmed that we are facing a ‘public health emergency’ because of poor air quality. Air pollution is contributing to around 40-50,000 early deaths a year in the UK, and the growth in respiratory problems is placing significant pressures on the NHS. Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) – an air pollutant - [Defending Religious Liberty: Placing society at the heart of the new British Bill of Rights](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/defending-religious-liberty-placing-society-heart-new-british-bill-rights/) - Fiona Bruce MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Religious Education, is joined by academics and other experts, in a discussion of the value of defending religious liberty. Recent controversial court cases have made religious liberty extremely relevant to policy makers and the general public. This report will explore what more Government can do to understand the religious implications of - [Going to Scale: Building the homes we need](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/going-scale-building-homes-need/) - Clive Betts MP, CLG Select Committee Chair, joins Stephen Hammond MP, Treasury Select Committee member, to discuss our new approach to scale up and accelerate housing delivery. A new approach to housing can meet need around the country and close the intergenerational divide in asset ownership. Despite a concerted drive, housing starts last year remained over 50,000 short - [Lessons from America: Time for a British Small Business Administration?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/lessons-america-time-british-small-business-administration/) - with Maria Contreras-Sweet, Administrator of the US Small Business Administration Bill Esterson MP, Shadow Small Business Minister Margot James MP, Small Business Minister (invited) Phillip Blond, Director, ResPublica ResPublica is delighted to be joined by Administrator Contreras-Sweet, appointed by President Obama to his cabinet to head the Small Business Administration (SBA) in 2014, as she - [Building Prosperity: A Reception for Tomorrow's Engineers Week](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/tomorrows-engineers-week-parliamentary-reception/) - Refreshments provided With Neil Carmichael MP, Chair, Education Committee Chris White MP, Business, Innovation and Skills Committee Professor Tony Travers, Director of LSE London, London School of Economics Rt Hon Robert Halfon MP, Minister for Apprenticeships and Skills (invited) In 2015, the engineering sector contributed an estimated 27% of the UK’s total GDP. Within a - [Backing Beauty Roundtable](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/backing-beauty-roundtable/) - Held on 20th July 2016 as part of the work of ResPublica's Backing Beauty Commission, this roundtable focused on how to encourage local authority investment in the public realm at a time of fiscal restraint, and how to make the most of the considerable resources and enthusiasm of ordinary citizens in shaping their locality. The - [Defeating Inequality Conference](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/confronting-inequality-conference/) - As we launch our new Defeating Inequality Commission, ResPublica will host leading politicians, influencers and thinkers to discuss the causes of economic, social and cultural inequality. with Economic Inequality: Sir Keir Starmer MP, Member for Holborn and St Pancras, former Director of Public Prosecutions; Torsten Bell, Director, Resolution Foundation Social Inequality: Tristram Hunt MP, former Shadow Education - [Eradicating Fuel Poverty](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/eradicating-fuel-poverty/) - with Angus MacNeil MP, Chair, Energy Select Committee This event is by invitation only. Please contact vanessa.schneider@respublica.org.uk for more information - [Britain's Future in Europe](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/britains-future-europe/) - Speakers include: Lord Ashdown, former Leader of the Liberal Democrats Emma Reynolds MP, former Shadow Minister for Europe Daniel Hannan MEP, Member for South East England John Longworth, former Director General, British Chambers of Commerce Mark Hoban, former Treasury Minister Lord Flight, former Minister and entrepreneur Daniel Hodson, Chair, City for Britain Baroness Kramer, Liberal - [In or Out? Debating Britain’s EU membership: 3rd Seminar: National Security & Global Influence](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/debating-britains-eu-membership-3rd-seminar-national-security-global-influence/) - In association with the James Madison Charitable Trust, the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent, including ResPublica trustee Professor Adrian Pabst, is organising a series of three seminars entitled “In or Out? Informing the political debate and popular opinion on UK’s EU membership”. These seminars will take place in the run-up - [The Benefits of EU Collaboration for Higher Education and Research](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/benefits-eu-collaboration-higher-education-research/) - Universities UK and ResPublica invite you to a unique EU referendum event on Thursday 9 June at Woburn House in Central London. With all eyes on the impending referendum on 23 June, one of the sectors that will be most impacted by the outcome of this decision is Higher Education, and the life-changing research conducted within our world-leading - [In or Out? Informing the political debate and popular opinion on UK’s EU membership](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/informing-political-debate-popular-opinion-uks-eu-membership/) - In association with the James Madison Charitable Trust, the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent, including ResPublica trustee Professor Adrian Pabst, is organising a series of three seminars entitled “In or Out? Informing the political debate and popular opinion on UK’s EU membership”. These seminars will take place in the run-up - [Switching for Good: How can we encourage switching in the UK energy market](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/switching-for-good-how-can-we-encourage-switching-in-the-uk-energy-market/) - By invitation only with James Heappey MP, Member, Energy and Climate Change Committee - [Skills for Infrastructure: How can future demand be met to fuel prosperity?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/the-construction-industry-and-skills-meeting-demand-and-fuelling-prosperity/) - Skills Minister Nick Boles joined Sir Terry Morgan, Chairman of Crossrail, and Andy Mitchell, Chief Executive of the Thames Tideway Tunnel, to debate how our construction skills needs can be met. The construction industry is one of the UK’s fastest growing and is a key driver of productivity and the country’s economic health – construction - [The NHS and Social Care: Reducing bed-blocking and financial pressures](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/the-nhs-and-social-care/) - Care Minister Rt Hon. Alistair Burt MP joins Barbara Keeley MP, Shadow Minister for Older People, Social Care and Carers, to debate the future of health and social care, touching upon topical issues about funding and bed-blocking. The NHS, and hospitals in particular, are under increasing strain in terms of both funding and capacity. There - [Ticket to Ride: How high speed rail for Liverpool can help realise the Northern Powerhouse](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/ticket-to-ride/) - The Liverpool City Region, with its world-class port and logistics facilities, growing business community, and cultural vibrancy, has the potential to drive economic growth at a local, regional and national level. Yet without proper infrastructure links to the rest of the country, these assets could well be squandered. This panel event, coinciding with ResPublica's latest report launch, - [Make or Break: Why Britain needs a manufacturing resurgence and how we can help it to take place](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/make-or-break-how-sterling-can-drive-britains-manufacturing-renaissance/) - Speakers Caroline Flint MP Anna Turley MP Seema Malhotra MP Lord Bilimoria of Chelsea Chaired by: Phillip Blond, Director, ResPublica The recent collapse of the British steel industry has demonstrated the problems of an economy reliant on services and external financing. As UK manufacturing’s competitiveness has declined – partly due to a strengthening pound – regional - [Can city-based devolution transform the lives of the least wealthy in society?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/can-city-based-devolution-transform-the-lives-of-the-least-wealthy-in-society-2/) - With key speaker: Rob Wilson MP, Minister for Civil Society Julia Unwin, Joseph Rowntree Foundation George Ferguson, Mayor of Bristol Kindly supported by: - [Can city-based devolution transform the lives of the least wealthy in society?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/can-city-based-devolution-transform-the-lives-of-the-least-wealthy-in-society/) - With key speakers: Rushanara Ali MP Julia Unwin, Joseph Rowntree Foundation Cllr Judith Blake, Leader, Leeds Council Caroline Julian, Head of Policy Programmes, ResPublica (chair) Kindly supported by: - [21st Century Health: Unlocking the potential of innovative medicines](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/21st-century-health-unlocking-the-potential-of-innovative-medicines/) - With key speakers: George Freeman MP, Minister for Life Sciences Sir David Amess MP Kindly supported by: - [The Northern Powerhouse: How can Government, cities and business work together to deliver growth?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/the-northern-powerhouse-how-can-government-cities-and-business-work-together-to-deliver-growth/) - With key speakers: Andrew Jones MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport Lord Ahmad, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport Sir David Amess MP Kindly supported by: - [Supporting Britain’s Smallest Businesses: Making sure the self-employed are not left behind](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/supporting-britains-smallest-businesses-making-sure-the-self-employed-are-not-left-behind/) - With key speakers: David Morris MP Michelle Donelan MP Kindly supported by: - [A Better Health Service: Placing people and communities at the heart of care](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/a-better-health-service-placing-people-and-communities-at-the-heart-of-care/) - With key speakers: Luciana Berger MP, Shadow Minister for Public Health Jane Abbott, Group Clinical Director, Benenden Adrian Sieff, Assistant Director, The Health Foundation Denis Campbell, Health Policy Editor, The Guardian (chair) Kindly supported by: - [Out of the Blue: Can Blue Labour save the party?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/out-of-the-blue-can-blue-labour-save-the-party/) - With key speakers: David Lammy MP Simon Danczuk MP Dr Adrian Pabst, Senior Lecturer in Politics, University of Kent Baron Glasman Ros Wynne-Jones, Daily Mirror (chair) Kindly supported by: - [The North & its Powerhouse: What does devolution mean for Northern cities, their inhabitants and their institutions?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/the-north-its-powerhouse-what-does-devolution-mean-for-northern-cities-their-inhabitants-and-their-institutions/) - With key speakers: Clive Betts MP, Chair, Communities and Local Government Committee Toby Perkins MP Graham Stringer MP Rt Hon Nick Brown MP Mike Kane MP Kindly supported by: - [The Labour Party & Brexit](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/the-labour-party-brexit/) - With key speaker: Mary Creagh MP Seema Malhotra MP, Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury Graham Stringer MP Sunder Katwala, Director, British Future Phillip Blond, Director, ResPublica (chair) - [Virtue in Business: Restoring the UK as a global leader in business culture](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/virtue-in-business-restoring-the-uk-as-a-global-leader-in-business-culture/) - With key speakers: John Mann MP, Treasury Select Commitee Will Hutton, Principal of Hertford College, Oxford Petra Wilton, Director of Strategy, Chartered Management Institute Geoff Moore, professor of Business Ethics, Durham University Adrian Wooldridge, Management Editor, The Economist (chair) Kindly supported by: - [Rethinking Labour's Relationship with Business](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/rethinking-labours-relationship-with-business/) - With key speakers: Angela Eagle MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills Rt Hon Caroline Flint MP Sir Keir Starmer MP John Mills, Chairman, JML John Cridland, Director General, CBI David Bird, Customer Operations Director, E.ON Kindly supported by: - [City Devolution: Unleashing the core cities and rebalancing the UK economy](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/city-devolution-unleashing-the-core-cities-and-rebalancing-the-uk-economy/) - With key speakers: James Wharton MP, Minister for the Northern Powerhouse (invited) Sir Richard Leese, Leader, Manchester City Council Phillip Blond, Director, ResPublica Andrew Carter, CEO, Centre for Cities Bob Blackman MP, Communities and Local Government Select Committee Kindly supported by: - [Teaching is a profession not a job](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/teaching-is-a-profession-not-a-job/) - With key speakers: Nick Gibb MP, Minister for Schools Patrick Roach, Deputy Director General, NASUWT Neil Carmichael MP, Chair, Education Select Committee - [Powering Innovation: How can we promote the rise of independents in the UK’s energy sector?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/powering-innovation-how-can-we-promote-the-rise-of-independents-in-the-uks-energy-sector/) - With key speakers: Rt Hon Amber Rudd MP, Secretary of State for Energy & Climate Change (invited) Peter Atherton, Managing Director, Jefferies Robert Groves, CEO, Smartest Energy Kindly supported by: - [A Better Health Service: Placing people and communities at the heart of care](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/a-better-health-service-placing-people-and-communities-at-the-heart-of-care-2/) - With key speakers: Steve Brine MP, PPS to the Secretary of State Dr Dan Poulter MP, Member for Central Suffolk and North Ipswich (invited) Jane Abbott, Group Clinical Director, Benenden Kindly supported by: - [How can we build enough homes?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/how-can-we-build-enough-homes/) - With key speakers: Brandon Lewis MP, Minister of State for Housing and Planning Stephen Howlett, Chief Executive, Peabody Stephen Teagle, Managing Director - Affordable Housing and Regeneration, Galliford Try Sara Bailey, Partner, Trowers & Hamlins Kindly supported by: - [Britain’s Key Cities: Is devolving to mid-sized cities the future of economic growth?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/britains-key-cities-is-devolving-to-mid-sized-cities-the-future-of-economic-growth/) - With key speakers: Rt Hon Greg Clark MP, Secretary of State for Communities & Local Government Cllr John Beesley, Leader of Bournemouth Council Andrew Carter, CEO, Centre for Cities Phillip Blond, Director, ResPublica Kindly supported by: - [The North & its Powerhouse: What does devolution mean for Northern cities, their inhabitants and their institutions?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/the-north-its-powerhouse-what-does-devolution-mean-for-northern-cities-their-inhabitants-and-their-institutions-2/) - With key speakers: Rob Wilson MP, Minister for Civil Society Kindly supported by: - [How can we keep the lights on at the lowest cost to the taxpayer?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/how-can-we-keep-the-lights-on-at-the-lowest-cost-to-the-taxpayer/) - With key speakers: Andrea Leadsom MP, Minister for Energy and Climate Change Rhian Kelly, Business Environment Director, CBI Professor Jim Watson, Research Director, UK Energy Research Centre Claire Duffy, General Manager, ESB Kindly supported by: - [Five Years Forward: The Future of Healthcare…In conversation with Jeremy Hunt MP](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/five-years-forward-the-future-of-healthcarein-conversation-with-jeremy-hunt-mp/) - With key speaker: Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP, Secretary of State for Health - [Everyone an Owner: The case for mutual models of business](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/everyone-an-owner-the-case-for-mutual-models-of-business/) - With key speakers: Lord Francis Maude, Minister of State for Trade and Investment (invited) Ed Mayo, Secretary General, Co-Operatives UK Steve Baker MP, Treasury Committee (invited) Kindly supported by: - [Innovative Healthcare in the 21st Century](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/innovative-healthcare-in-the-21st-century/) - With key speaker: George Freeman MP, Minister for Life Sciences Kindly supported by: - [Virtue in Business: Restoring the UK as a global leader in business culture](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/virtue-in-business-restoring-the-uk-as-a-global-leader-in-business-culture-2/) - With key speakers: Anna Soubry MP, Minister for Small Business Anne Francke, Chief Executive, CMI Ron Beadle, Professor of Organisation and Business Ethics, Northumbria University Kindly supported by: - [A Community Right to Beauty](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/a-community-right-to-beauty/) - ResPublica is launching its latest report: A Community Right to Beauty: Giving communities the power to shape, enhance and create beautiful places, buildings and spaces. Arguing for the restoration and democratisation beauty in public policy, this seminal publication recommends the extension of community influence in the planning process to ensure beautiful localities are accessible to all. Based - [In Professions We Trust](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/in-professions-we-trust/) - ResPublica invites to you the launch of its latest report: In Professions We Trust: Fostering virtuous practitioners in teaching, law and medicine. This report will argue that the legal, medical, and teaching professions provide a vital link between public service and the wider common good. Yet this understanding of civic purpose is in crisis, and - [Building for the Future: What now for housing?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/building-for-the-future-what-now-for-housing/) - Keynotes - Roberta Blackman-Woods MP, Shadow Housing Minister Clive Betts MP Speakers - Sara Bailey, Head of Residential Real Estate, Trowers & Hamlins David Cowans, Chief Executive, Places for People Jeremy Stibbe, Executive Director Development & Sales, Peabody Stephen Teagle, MD Affordable Housing & Regeneration, Galliford Try Chaired by: Phillip Blond, Director, ResPublica With the General - [Vocational Banking: Restoring trust and confidence in financial services](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/vocational-banking-restoring-trust-and-confidence-in-financial-services/) - On the 28th May 2015, ResPublica hosted a breakfast panel session entitled Vocational Banking: Restoring trust and confidence in financial services. Featuring a keynote speech from Martin Wheatley, Chief Executive of the Financial Conduct Authority, the event builds on the success of ResPublica's report Virtuous Banking, discussing the ways in which we can begin to renew banking culture - [Virtue in Education: Character, Non-Cognitive Skills, and K-12 Education](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/virtue-in-education-character-non-cognitive-skills-and-k-12-education/) - ResPublica's Director, Phillip Blond, will be speaking to an education conference in New York, hosted by the Jubilee Foundation. The event will see a preview of ResPublica's upcoming report on role of virtue in professions. - [Rt Hon John Hayes MP, Minister for Transport: ‘Devolution - empowering communities to plan & deliver 21st Century Infrastructure?’](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/combined-communities-integrated-approached-decentralised-infrastructure-planning-rt-hon-john-hayes-mp/) - ‘Devolution - empowering communities to plan & deliver 21st Century Infrastructure?’ was a high-profile evening panel event exploring the current planned policy blueprint for devolved infrastructure in the UK. In his keynote the Minister for Transport currently overseeing the Infrastructure Bill set out his vision for infrastructure delivery in the context of devolution, and announced the creation of - [From HS2 to HS3: A high speed route to re-balance Britain?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/hs2-hs3-high-speed-route-re-balance-britain-3/) - Speakers: Baroness Kramer @SusanKramer Joe Anderson, Mayor, Liverpool City Council @joeforliverpool Phillip Blond, Director, ResPublica @Phillip_Blond ResPublica's full Liberal Democrats Party Conference programme is available here. Co-hosted with 20 Miles More, Mayor of Liverpool, High Speed Rail for Liverpool. - [Tim Farron MP: ‘The Future of Lib Dem Policy’ policy breakfast](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/policy-breakfast-tim-farron/) - For further information please contact Matt Stokes, Research and Events Assistant, at matt.stokes@respublica.org.uk or 0203 542 8150. - [Mark Boleat, Chairman, City of London Corporation and Geoff Mulgan, Chief Executive, Nesta: ‘Innovation Nation: Improving the UK’s capacity to innovate successfully’ policy breakfast](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/innovation-nation-improving-uks-capacity-innovate-successfully/) - For further information please contact Matt Stokes, Research and Events Assistant, on matt.stokes@respublica.org.uk or 0203 542 8150. - [Tim Yeo MP: ‘Why energy should not be an election issue – addressing the trilemma in the next Parliament’ policy breakfast](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/energy-not-election-issue-addressing-trilemma-next-parliament-policy-breakfast-tim-yeo/) - For further information please contact Matt Stokes, Research and Events Assistant, at matt.stokes@respublica.org.uk or 0203 542 8150. - [Brandon Lewis MP, Minister for Housing: ‘The Homes We Build Together: A Conservative approach to housebuilding’ policy breakfast](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/policy-breakfast-brandon-lewis/) - For further information please contact Elliott Mears, Events and Communications Manager, elliott.mears@respublica.org.uk, 0207 222 6552. - [Alex Chisholm, Chief Executive, Competition and Markets Authority: ‘Unlocking growth and innovation through consumer-focused competition’ policy breakfast](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/unlocking-growth-innovation-consumer-focused-competition-policy-breakfast-alex-chisholm-chief-executive-competition-markets-authority/) - For further information please contact Matt Stokes, Research and Events Assistant, on matt.stokes@respublica.org.uk or 0203 542 8150. - [After the Scottish Referendum: The future of devolution](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/scottish-referendum-future-devolution/) - After the Scottish Referendum: The future of devolution #ScottishIndependence. Speakers: Rt Hon David Mundell MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland @DavidMundellMP Jacob Rees-Mogg MP, Member of Parliament for North East Somerset Phillip Blond, Director, ResPublica @Phillip_Blond Nat Le Roux, Director, The Constitution Society @Con_Soc Alan Cochrane, Scottish Editor, The Telegraph @AlanCochraneSez - [Conference 'The Idea of Europe'](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/conference-idea-europe/) - The conference on "The Idea of Europe" is organised by the independent journal Telos — a leading publication that brings together intellectuals from around the world, especially North America and Europe. The conference will take place in L’Aquila, Italy, on 5-8 September 2014. Amid the war in eastern Ukraine and growing uncertainty within the EU, - [Britain and Immigration - which way forward?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/britain-immigration-way-forward/) - Speakers: James Forsyth, Political Editor, The Spectator @JGForsyth (invited) James Brokenshire MP, Minister for Immigration @JBrokenshire The Lord Popat of Harrow, Lord in Waiting Sunder Katwala, Director, British Future @sundersays Sir Andrew Green, Chairmen, MigrationWatch UK ResPublica's full Conservative Party Conference programme is available here. - [21st Century Healthcare: Technology, participation and medical innovation, with George Freeman MP, Minister for Life Sciences](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/21st-century-healthcare-technology-participation-medical-innovation-minister-life-sciences-george-freeman-mp/) - '21st Century Healthcare: Technology, participation and medical innovation' will be a UK first, bringing together the key stakeholders from across the industry to form a holistic pathway for the life sciences industry. The day will set the standard for the Government's Life Sciences Strategy for the next five years in supporting a model of healthcare fit for - [Launch of ResPublica and Core Cities Report at The UK Devolution Summit](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/launch-respublica-core-cities-report-uk-devolution-summit/) - View the agenda The debate on devolution, not only between parliaments, but for cities and other places across the whole of the UK, has never been more important to the future of our country. As the General Election approaches, all major parties have committed to devolution in some form and it will be a key - [Caroline Julian at ‘Powering Up North’ Community Energy Conference](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/powering-north-community-energy-conference/) - Our Head of Research, Caroline Julian, will be speaking at 'Powering Up North: Changing our communities’ energy future' on Thursday 26 February at the Friends Meeting House, Manchester. The event is a community energy conference for the public sector and communities, exploring how we can encourage and capitalise on the fast paced growth of the community energy sector throughout - ['Ofgem - Energy Regulation and the Future' policy breakfast with Dermot Nolan](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/future-role-ofgem-dermot-nolan/) - For further information please contact Elliott Mears, Events and Communications Manager, elliott.mears@respublica.org.uk, 0207 222 6552. - ['Housing for All: Building the homes our children need' policy breakfast with Sir Michael Lyons](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/sir-michael-lyons-lyons-housing-review/) - For further information please contact Elliott Mears, Events and Communications Manager, elliott.mears@respublica.org.uk, 0207 222 6552. - [Digital currencies: Will regulation stifle innovation? with Steve Baker MP & Adam Afriyie MP](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/digital-currencies-will-regulation-stifle-innovation-steve-baker-mp-adam-afriyie-mp/) - In the wake of the financial crisis, the world of finance has seen the rapid growth of digital currencies. Offering a payment service that is quick, cheap and convenient, their popularity has risen as people look for alternatives to our mainstream financial institutions.As innovative digital currencies have begun to break into the mainstream monetary system, - [ResPublica's 5th Anniversary](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/respublicas-5th-anniversary/) - On Tuesday 16th December 2014, ResPublica celebrated its 5th Anniversary with a Question Time style debate and party at the Institute of Directors, 116 Pall Mall. Our Director, Phillip Blond, delivered a keynote address to an audience of parliamentarians, political commentators, academics and friends, with the reception overwhelmingly positive. The speech set the tone for the rest of - ['The Labour Party's Vision for Defence' with Vernon Coaker MP](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/labour-partys-vision-defence-vernon-coaker-mp/) - This is a private roundtable event. For further information please contact Elliott Mears, Events and Communications Manager, elliott.mears@respublica.org.uk, 0207 222 6552. - [Caroline Julian at the Community Energy Conference](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/caroline-julian-community-energy-conference/) - Caroline Julian, Head of Research at ResPublica, will speak at the Community Energy Conference on the topic: 'Creating Local Energy Economies – Lessons from Germany'. - [Blue Labour Midlands Seminar](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/blue-labour-midlands-seminar/) - ResPublica's Caroline Julian and Phillip Blond will be speaking at the ‘Blue Labour Midlands Seminar’ on 5 July. - [‘Bridging the gap'](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/bridging-gap/) - ResPublica director, Phillip Blond speaks at the 2014 Northern Revolution Conference. - [Putting people at the heart of Europe's clean energy future](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/putting-people-heart-europes-clean-energy-future/) - Many decision makers don’t appreciate the scale of community energy projects that already exist. This event will give policymakers a good grounding in the strength of community energy projects that are already functioning and providing benefits to communities. - [Caroline Julian at the NHF's Regeneration Conference](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/caroline-julian-nhfs-regeneration-conference/) - ResPublica's Caroline Julian speaks at the National Housing Federation’s Regeneration Conference at the Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) in Manchester. - [Caroline Julian talks to Premier Christian Radio](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/caroline-julian-talks-premier-christian-radio/) - Caroline Julian discusses our Holistic Mission report and the Government's new intiatives to engage faith groups in social action with Premier Christian Radio. - [Phillip Blond delivers a keynote address at Liverpool X](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/phillip-blond-delivers-keynote-address-liverpool-x/) - [Phillip Blond joins the Guardian to discuss the future of housing in the UK](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/phillip-blond-joins-guardian-discuss-future-housing-uk/) - [Keynote Address by Phillip Blond at the Fund Management Summit 2013](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/keynote-address-phillip-blond-fund-management-summit-2013/) - [Caroline Julian speaks at the Community Energy Conference 2013](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/caroline-julian-speaks-community-energy-conference-2013/) - [Debating Society: The 'Left-Right Divide Lunacy' with Phillip Blond](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/debating-society-left-right-divide-lunacy-phillip-blond/) - Phillip Blond joins the Home House Debating Society to discuss the nature of political divisions. - [Towards the Post-Liberal Future](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/towards-post-liberal-future/) - This year's Blue Labour Midlands Seminar will take place on the 5th July at the University of Nottingham. ResPublica's Professor John Milbank, Dr Adrian Pabst and Caroline Julian will take part in the discussions. The aim of this seminar is to gather Blue Labour thinkers, supporters and activists to explore and discuss substantive and emerging - [HowTheLightsGetIn](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/howthelightsgetin/) - HowTheLightGetsIn, the world's largest philosophy and music festival, will this year be held between 23rd May and 2nd June. ResPublica's Director, Phillip Blond, will be speaking at three events on Monday 27th May. 12.00pm - Politics, Power, and Religion From the divine right of kings to the Protestant work ethic and the exporting of Christianity, - [Do Christians Really Oppose Gay Marriage?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/christians-really-oppose-gay-marriage/) - As part of the 2013 Westminster Faith Debates, ResPublica's Chair of Trustees, Professor John Milbank, will speak at the event 'Do Christians really oppose gay marriage?' on 18th April at 5.30 pm. The discussion will be chaired by the Rt Hon Charles Clarke and Prof Linda Woodhead, and the other speaker include Professor Stephen Holmes, - [Wealth: Blessing or curse?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/wealth-blessing-curse/) - ResPublica's Director Phillip Blond will deliver his lecture "Towards a Moral Market" on 9th April, 7.30pm, as part of the Hugh Price Hughes Lecture Series 2013, held at the Hinde Street Methodist Church. - [Business Solent Working Lunch](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/business-solent-working-lunch/) - Business Solent will be hosting their first Working Lunch of 2013 at the Signature Restaurant, Mercure Dolphin Hotel on 14th March. ResPublica Fellow Francis Davis will provide an overview on City Deals, covering what they are, the political analysis that underpins them, the bid process and what impact they could have on business. - [Where Red and Blue Meet](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/red-blue-meet/) - The Anglia Ruskin University is hosting the event "Where red and blue meet; the role of intermediate institutions between the family and the state in British society?" on Tuesday 12th March, with ResPublica Director Phillip Blond and Lord Glasman. Lord Glasman and Phillip Blond have both challenged their own political parties and, through them, the - [Chartered Institute of Housing: Conference and Exhibition](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/chartered-institute-housing-conference-exhibition/) - CIH’s South East conference will this year be held in Brighton 5th-7th March. ResPublica’s Director Phillip Blond will be speaking at the keynote session ‘What kind of society do you want to live in? – levelling up or levelling down?’ on Tuesday 5th March at 2.15pm. Other speakers include: Bill Randall, Brighton and Hove Green - [What Is the New Role for Housing Associations?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/new-role-housing-associations/) - The National Housing Federation's Leaders' Forum and Exhibition 2013 will this year be held over the 25th and 26th of February at Grange Tower Bridge Hotel, Tower Hamlets. The Leaders’ Forum is a gathering place for chief executives and chairs of the housing sector to network and learn from a range of high-profile and inspirational - [Local Public Services Conference and Excellence Awards](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/local-public-services-conference-excellence-awards/) - This year's CIPR Conference will be held between the 7th and 8th of February at City Hall in Bristol. The conference is structured so delegates can build their own programme to make sure that it's relevant to their work. Whether delegates are from a rural or urban area, district, county, city, or London borough, whether - [Red Toryism: Has Cameron Delivered?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/red-toryism-cameron-delivered/) - ResPublica’s Director Phillip Blond will be appearing as the guest speaker for the first Conservative Future Young Professionals event of 2013, held at the exclusive Aura Mayfair Club on Wednesday 30th January 2013 at 6.30pm. The subject of Phillip's speech will be: "Red Toryism: Has Cameron Delivered?" Tickets are £10 (excluding a small transactional fee), - [Has the Traditional Family Had Its Day?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/traditional-family-day/) - Intelligence Squared and Google are proud to launch the second in their new series of monthly 'Versus' debates. A panel of world experts will debate the motion: 'The Traditional Family Has Had Its Day: gay parents, single parents, communes - anything goes!’ Can children thrive in any type of loving domestic set-up? Or do children - [Europe of Tomorrow: The new way of thinking](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/europe-tomorrow-new-way-thinking/) - Held on the 22nd January 2013, the 10th Vienna Congress com.sult will bring together prominent figures to discuss future-relevant topics, and form a highly attractive network of executives and decision-makers. The Congress will discuss the issue of how to create a new way of thinking with the objective to overcome impediments to reforms and taking - [Climbing the Credit Ladder: Short-term loans as a path to long-term credit](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/climbing-credit-ladder-short-term-loans-path-long-term-credit/) - In light of the recent regulation and reform from the Financial Conduct Authority on short-term credit supply, ResPublica is launching its latest report: Climbing the Credit Ladder: Short-term loans as a path to long-term credit. The report will explore the current state of a market that has undergone dramatic change within the last year, and - ['Keeping it Local: How the planning system can deliver growth', with Rt Hon Hilary Benn MP, Shadow Secretary of State of DCLG](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/keeping-local-planning-system-can-deliver-growth-rt-hon-hilary-benn-mp-shadow-secretary-state-dclg/) - This is a private roundtable event. For further information please contact Elliott Mears, Events and Communications Manager, elliott.mears@respublica.org.uk, 0207 222 6552. - [Facilitating Competition and New Entrants into the UK's Energy Markets](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/facilitating-competition-new-entrants-uks-energy-markets/) - Speakers: The Rt Hon Ed Davey MP, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change @EdwardDaveyMP Sir Robert Smith MP @RobertHSmithMP Michelle Hubert, Head of Energy and Climate Change, Confederation of British Industry Tor Inge Akselsen, Senior Vice President, Statnett @TorIngeAkselsen ResPublica's full Liberal Democrats Party Conference programme is available here. Co-hosted with Statnett. - [How can payday lending help borrowers climb the credit ladder?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/can-payday-lending-help-borrowers-climb-credit-ladder-3/) - Speakers: John Thurso MP, Member, Treasury Committee Russell Hamblin-Boone, Chief Executive of the Consumer Finance Association Joanna Elson, Chief Executive, Money Advice Trust @JoannaElson Phillip Blond, Director, ResPublica @Phillip_Blond ResPublica's full Liberal Democrats Party Conference programme is available here. Co-hosted with Consumer Finance Association. - [Restoring the Welfare State: The Liberal Democrat vision for welfare](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/restoring-welfare-state-liberal-democrat-vision-welfare/) - Speakers: Steve Webb MP, Minister for Pensions @stevewebb1 Clare Pelham, Chief Executive, Leonard Cheshire @ClarePelham ResPublica's full Liberal Democratic Party Conference programme is available here. - [The Future of England's Core Cities: Public sector reform and economic growth](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/future-englands-core-cities-public-sector-reform-economic-growth/) - Speakers: Stephen Williams MP, Minister for Communities and Local Government @swilliamsmp Rt Hon John Pugh, Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Southport @johnpughmp Chris Murray, Director, Core Cities Phillip Blond, Director, ResPublica @Phillip_Blond Paul Woolston, Chairman, North East LEP ResPublica's full Liberal Democrats Party Conference programme is available here. Co-hosted with Core Cities. - [In Conversation with... Paddy Ashdown 'The future and meaning of liberalism'](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/conversation-paddy-ashdown-future-meaning-liberalism/) - Speakers: The Rt Hon. the Lord Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon GCMG KBE @paddyashdown Phillip Blond, Director, ResPublica @Phillip_Blond ResPublica's full Liberal Democrats Party Conference programme is available here. - [In Conversation with... Jeremy Browne 'The future and meaning of liberalism'](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/conversation-jeremy-browne-future-meaning-liberalism/) - Speakers: Jeremy Browne MP, Taunton Deane Constituency, Liberal Democrat @JeremyBrowneMP Phillip Blond, Director, ResPublica @Phillip_Blond ResPublica's full Liberal Democrats Party Conference programme is available here. - [Why are all banks the same? How diversity can create real competition in banking and financial services](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/banks-diversity-can-create-real-competition-banking-financial-services-3/) - Speakers: John Thurso MP, Member, Treasury Committee This is a private roundtable event. For further information please contact Elliott Mears, Events and Communications Manager, elliott.mears@respublica.org.uk, 0207 222 6552. ResPublica's full Liberal Democrats Party Conference programme is available here. - [Devo-Max for Manchester: How to deliver the public services we need](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/devo-max-manchester-deliver-public-services-need/) - Speakers: Rt Hon Norman Lamb MP, Minister for Care and Support @normanlamb Stephen Williams MP, Minister for Communities and Local Government @swilliamsmp David Boyle, Author @davidboyle1958 Paul Woolston, Chair, North East LEP John Pugh, Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Southport @johnpughmp ResPublica's full Liberal Democrats Party Conference programme is available here. Co-hosted with Greater - [21st Century Healthcare: Technology and Patient Empowerment](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/21st-century-healthcare-technology-patient-empowerment/) - Speakers: George Freeman MP, Minister for Life Science @Freeman_George Andrew Ward, Pharmaceutical correspondent, Financial Times @andrew_ward1 Hakim Yadi, Chief Executive Officer, Northern Health Science Alliance @hakim_yadi Ian Greer, Professor of Comparative Employment Relations, University of Greenwich Nigel Gaymond, Executive Chairman, Personalised Healthcare Alliance @ngaymond ResPublica's full Conservative Party Conference programme is available here. Co-hosted with - [The consumer's not for switching? Making energy markets work better](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/consumers-not-switching-making-energy-markets-work-better/) - Speakers: Phillip Blond, Director, ResPublica @Phillip_Blond Rt Hon Peter Lilley MP, Member, Energy and Climate Change Select Committee @PeterLilleyMP Charles Southwood, Director, Vocalink @c_southwood ResPublica's full Conservative Party Conference programme is available here. Co-hosted with Vocalink. - [Why are all banks the same? How diversity can create real competition in banking and financial services](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/banks-diversity-can-create-real-competition-banking-financial-services-2/) - Speakers: Jonathan Evans MP, Chair, APPG for Mutuals @JonathanEvansMP Guy Opperman MP @GuyOppermanMP This is a private roundtable event. For further information please contact Elliott Mears, Events and Communications Manager, elliott.mears@respublica.org.uk, 0207 222 6552. ResPublica's full Conservative Party Conference programme is available here. Co-hosted with Building Societies Association. - [Virtuous Capital: Are markets key to securing a sustainable future?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/virtuous-capital-markets-key-securing-sustainable-future/) - Speakers: Steve Baker MP, Member, Treasury Committee @SteveBakerMP Jesse Norman MP, Member, Treasury Committee @Jesse_Norman Jonathan Djanogly MP, Member, Huntingdon constituency @JDjanogly Steve Waygood, Chief Responsible Investment Officer, Aviva Investors ResPublica's full Conservative Party Conference programme is available here. Co-hosted with Aviva. - [How can payday lending help borrowers climb the credit ladder?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/can-payday-lending-help-borrowers-climb-credit-ladder-2/) - Speakers: Nils Pratley, Financial Editor, The Guardian @NilsPratley (invited) Mark Garnier MP, Member, Treasury Committee @Mark4WyreForest Russell Hamblin-Boone, Chief Executive, Consumer Finance Association Joanna Elson, Chief Executive, Money Advice Trust @JoannaElson Jan Smith, External Affairs Director, Callcredit Information Group @JanCallcredit Phillip Blond, Director, ResPublica @Phillip_Blond ResPublica's full Conservative Party Conference programme is available here. Co-hosted - [From HS2 to HS3: A high speed route to re-balance Britain?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/hs2-hs3-high-speed-route-re-balance-britain-2/) - Speakers: Joe Anderson, Mayor, Liverpool City Council @joeforliverpool Phillip Blond, Director, ResPublica @Phillip_Blond ResPublica's full Conservative Party Conference programme is available here. Co-hosted with 20 Miles More, Mayor of Liverpool, High Speed Rail for Liverpool. - [The Geopolitics of Energy: What next after Russia and Ukraine?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/geopolitics-energy-next-russia-ukraine/) - Speakers: Daniel Kawczynski MP, Adviser to the Prime Minister on Central and Eastern Europe @daniel4shrews This is a private roundtable event. For further information please contact Elliott Mears, Events and Communications Manager, elliott.mears@respublica.org.uk, 0207 222 6552. ResPublica's full Conservative Party Conference programme is available here. Co-hosted with Centrica. - [The Future of the NHS: Empowering patients](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/future-nhs-empowering-patients-2/) - Speakers: Daniel Poulter MP, Minister for Health This is a private roundtable event. For further information please contact Elliott Mears, Events and Communications Manager, elliott.mears@respublica.org.uk, 0207 222 6552. ResPublica's full Conservative Party Conference programme is available here. Co-hosted with Benenden Health. - [In Conversation With... Dominic Raab](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/conversation-dominic-raab/) - Speakers: Dominic Raab MP Phillip Blond, Director, ResPublica @Phillip_Blond ResPublica's full Conservative Party Conference programme is available here. - [The Way Ahead for England’s Core Cities: Local economic growth and public sector reform](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/way-ahead-englands-core-cities-local-economic-growth-public-sector-reform/) - Speakers: Mike Burton, Editoria Director, Hemming Group @MJMikeBurton Rt Hon Greg Clark MP, Minister for Universities, Cities and Science @gregclarkmp Sir Albert Bore, Leader, Birmingham City Council @SirAlbertBore Phillip Blond, Director, ResPublica @Phillip_Blond James Newman, Chairman, LEP ResPublica's full Conservative Party Conference programme is available here. Co-hosted with Core Cities. - [Keeping the Lights On: Energy security and the low carbon challenge](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/keeping-lights-energy-security-low-carbon-challenge-2/) - Speakers: Faisal Islam, Sky News political editor @faisalislam (invited) Amber Rudd MP, Minister for Energy and Climate Change @AmberRuddMP Tor Inge Akselsen, Senior Vice President, Statnett @TorIngeAkselsen ResPublica's full Conservative Party Conference programme is available here. Co-hosted with Statnett. - [Restoring the Welfare State: The Conservative vision for welfare](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/restoring-welfare-state-conservative-vision-welfare/) - Speakers: Lord Freud, Minister for Welfare Reform Fraser Nelson, Editor, The Spectator @FraserNelson (invited) ResPublica's full Conservative Party Conference programme is available here. - [Devo-Max for Manchester: A new model of public service delivery](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/devo-max-manchester-new-model-public-service-delivery-2/) - Speakers: Stewart Jackson MP, Member for Peterborough (invited) Rt Hon John Hayes MP, Minister for Transport Sir Howard Bernstein, Chief Executive of Manchester City Council, Manchester Town Hall @EvilHowieB Phillip Blond, Director, ResPublica @Phillip_Blond ResPublica's full Conservative Party Conference programme is available here. Co-hosted with the Greater Manchester Combined Authority. - [How can payday lending help borrowers climb the credit ladder?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/can-payday-lending-help-borrowers-climb-credit-ladder/) - Speakers: Cathy Jamieson, Shadow Financial Secretary to the Treasury @cathyjamieson Russell Hamblin-Boone, Chief Executive, Consumer Finance Association Joanna Elson, Chief executive, Money Advice Trust @JoannaElson Phillip Blond, Director, ResPublica @Phillip_Blond ResPublica's full Labour Party Conference programme is available here. Co-hosted with Consumer Finance Association. - [Why are all banks the same? How diversity can create real competition in banking and financial services](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/banks-diversity-can-create-real-competition-banking-financial-services/) - Speakers: Lord Roy Kennedy, Labour & Cooperative Member of the House of Lords and Lewisham Council @LordRoyKennedy This is a private roundtable event. For further information please contact Elliott Mears, Events and Communications Manager, elliott.mears@respublica.org.uk, 0207 222 6552. ResPublica's full Labour Party Conference programme is available here. Co-hosted with Building Societies Association. - [The Future of the NHS: Empowering patients](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/future-nhs-empowering-patients/) - Speakers: Denis Campbell, Health Correspondent, The Guardian, The Observer @denis_campbell Andy Burnham MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Health @aburnhammp Barbara Keeley MP for Worsley and Eccles South @KeeleyMP Marc Bell, Chief Executive , Benenden Healthcare Society @benhealthmarc Phillip Blond, Director, ResPublica, @Phillip_Blond ResPublica's full Labour Party Conference programme is available here. Co-hosted with Benenden - [Keeping the Lights On: Energy security and the low carbon challenge](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/keeping-lights-energy-security-low-carbon-challenge/) - Speakers: Faisal Islam, Political Editor, Sky News @faisalislam (invited) Tom Greatrex MP, Shadow Energy Minister @tomgreatrexmp Dr Alan Whitehead MP, Member, Energy and Climate Change Select Committee @alanwhiteheadmp Tor Inge Akselsen, Senior Vice President, Statnett @TorIngeAkselsen Michelle Hubert, Head of Energy and Climate Change, Confederation of British Industry ResPublica's full Labour Party Conference programme is - [In Conversation with... Maurice Glasman ' 'The future and meaning of socialism'](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/conversation-maurice-glasman-future-meaning-socialism/) - Speakers: Lord Glasman of Stoke Newington and Stamford Hill @glasman_maurice Phillip Blond, Director, ResPublica @Phillip_Blond ResPublica's full Labour Party Conference programme is available here. - [The Way Ahead for England's Core Cities: Public sector reform and local economic growth](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/way-ahead-englands-core-cities-public-sector-reform-local-economic-growth/) - Speakers: Hilary Benn MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government @hilarybennmp Sir Richard Leese, Leader, Manchester City Council @SirRichardLeese Mike Blackburn, Chair, LEP ResPublica's full Labour Party Conference programme is available here. Co-hosted with Core Cities. - [Energy Customers Deserve Better: How to help consumers make the switch](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/energy-customers-deserve-better-help-consumers-make-switch/) - Speakers: Phillip Blond, Director, ResPublica @Phillip_Blond Rt Hon Caroline Flint MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change @CarolineFlintMP Martin Lewis, Founder, MoneySavingExpert.com @MartinSLewis Charles Southwood , Director, VocaLink @c_southwood ResPublica's full Labour Party Conference programme is available here. Co-hosted with Vocalink. - [From HS2 to HS3: A high speed route to re-balance Britain?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/hs2-hs3-high-speed-route-re-balance-britain/) - Speakers: Lord Andrew Adonis, Shadow Infrastructure Minister @Andrew_Adonis Stephen Twigg, Shadow Minister for Political and Constitutional Reform @StephenTwigg Joe Anderson, Mayor, Liverpool @joeforliverpool Phillip Blond, Director, ResPublica @Phillip_Blond Tom Edwards, Transport and Environment Correspondent, BBC (invited) @BBCTomEdwards Kaya Burgess, News Reporter, The Times (invited) @kayaburgess Gwyn Topham, Transport Correspondent, Guardian @GwynTopham Andrew Morris, Director, 20 - [In Conversation with... Stewart Wood 'The future and meaning of socialism'](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/conversation-stewart-wood-future-meaning-socialism/) - Speakers: Lord Wood of Anfield @StewartWood Phillip Blond, Director, ResPublica @Phillip_Blond ResPublica's full Labour Party Conference programme is available here. - [Devo-Max for Manchester: a new model of public service delivery](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/devo-max-manchester-new-model-public-service-delivery/) - Speakers: John Harris, Journalist, The Guardian (invited) Rt Hon Graham Allen MP, Chair, Political and Constitutional Reform Select Committee @GrahamAllenMP Andy Sawford MP, Shadow Minister for Communities and Local Government @AndySawfordMP Sir Howard Bernstein, Chief Executive, Manchester City Council @EvilHowieB ResPublica's full Labour Party Conference programme is available here. Co-hosted with Greater Manchester Combined Authority. - ['Renaissance Cities: Can metropolitan areas mend our broken economy?', with Lord Adonis, Shadow Shadow Infrastructure Minister](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/renaissance-cities-can-metropolitan-areas-mend-broken-economy-lord-adonis-shadow-shadow-infrastructure-minister/) - This is a private roundtable event. For further information please contact Elliott Mears, Events and Communications Manager, elliott.mears@respublica.org.uk, 0207 222 6552. - ['Innovation and Insulation: What next for energy efficiency?', with Jonathan Reynolds MP, Shadow Minister for Energy](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/innovation-insulation-next-energy-efficiency-jonathan-reynolds-mp-shadow-minister-energy/) - This is a private roundtable event. For further information please contact Elliott Mears, Events and Communications Manager, elliott.mears@respublica.org.uk, 0207 222 6552. - [Virtuous Banking: Placing ethos and purpose at the heart of finance](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/virtuous-banking-placing-ethos-purpose-heart-finance/) - On Tuesday 29th July 2014 at the Financial Times, ResPublica will be launching its latest report: Virtuous Banking: Placing ethos and purpose at the heart of finance. The report reviews the way in which the banking industry governs and organises itself and explores how the financial sector can be made more responsive, responsible and inherently - [Report Launch 'Virtuous Banking: Placing ethos and purpose at the heart of finance'](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/report-launch-virtuous-banking-placing-ethos-purpose-heart-finance/) - ResPublica is launching its latest report: Virtuous Banking: Placing ethos and purpose at the heart of finance. The report reviews the way in which the banking industry governs and organises itself and explores how the financial sector can be made more responsive, responsible and inherently ethos driven. Addressing the problems of the past, the project - [Licence Lite and Local Energy Supply](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/licence-lite-local-energy-supply/) - ResPublica's Caroline Julian will be speaking at a Cornwall Energy/Temple Bright seminar: Licence Lite and Local Energy Supply on 16 July. - ['Power to the People: Why the UK needs the Big 60,000', with Rt Hon Greg Barker MP, Minister for Energy](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/power-people-uk-needs-big-60000-rt-hon-greg-barker-mp-minister-energy/) - This is a private roundtable event. For further information please contact Elliott Mears, Events and Communications Manager, elliott.mears@respublica.org.uk, 020 7222 6552. - ['21st Century City States: Are our city-regions equipped to meet Britain's future economic challenges?' with Rt Hon Greg Clark MP, MInister for Cities](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/21st-century-city-states-city-regions-equipped-meet-britains-future-economic-challenges-rt-hon-greg-clark-mp-minister-cities/) - This is a private roundtable event. For further information please contact Elliott Mears, Events and Communications Manager, elliott.mears@respublica.org.uk, 02072226552. - [The northern revolution conference](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/northern-revolution-conference/) - THE ISSUE: The North’s major cities have enjoyed an incredible renaissance during the past decade, and despite the challenging economic environment of recent years, they continue to make huge progress. Despite all the progress made, the investment won, and the impressive physical regeneration that has taken place, there still remains a chasm between prosperity in - ['The Role of Local Authorities in Housing', with Rt Hon Eric Pickles MP, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/role-local-authorities-housing-rt-hon-eric-pickles-mp-secretary-state-communities-local-government/) - This is a private roundtable event. For further information please contact Elliott Mears, Events and Communications Manager, elliott.mears@respublica.org.uk, 0207 222 6552. - [Financing Ethos: The socially and economically transformative role of Islamic finance](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/financing-ethos-socially-economically-transformative-role-islamic-finance/) - Bound by tradition and ethics, Islamic finance follows a moral code that could transform our financial sector and restore ethos and values to British banking. Already prominent in the UK, and with a projected global market worth of $2 trillion in assets by the end of 2014, it is not only ethical, but profitable. In - ['Environmental Change and the UK's Response', with Lord Smith, Chairman of the Environment Agency](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/environmental-change-uks-response-lord-smith-chairman-environment-agency/) - This is a private roundtable event. For further information please contact Elliott Mears, Events and Communications Manager, elliott.mears@respublica.org.uk, 0207 222 6552. - [Gas Is Our Ally: Why the gas revolution can help fight climate change](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/gas-ally-gas-revolution-can-help-fight-climate-change/) - On Monday 30th June, ResPublica will be hosting Rt Hon Greg Barker MP, Minister of State for Energy and Climate Change, who will be delivering a keynote speech on how the gas revolution can help put the UK on track to the low carbon future that we desperately need. In the context of global climate - [New policies, new government. As manifestos are being debated and drafted, what are the housing policy directions for a new government?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/new-policies-new-government-manifestos-debated-drafted-housing-policy-directions-new-government/) - Speakers: Phillip Blond, Director, ResPublica Stephen Teagle, Managing Director, Affordable Housing and Regeneration, Galliford Try - [Catholic social teaching, public policy and economics – Pope Benedict, Pope Francis and beyondCatholic social teaching, public policy and economics – Pope Benedict, Pope Francis and beyond](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/catholic-social-teaching-public-policy-economics-pope-benedict-pope-francis-beyondcatholic-social-teaching-public-policy-economics-pope-benedict-pope-francis/) - Catholic social teaching seeks to provide guidance on, amongst other things, the appropriate role of the state in economic life. Pope Benedict XVI’s social encyclical, Caritas in veritate, prompted an important discussion after the financial crash about the role of ethics in business. This discussion united many who disagreed on a range of other issues. - [Conference on Post-liberal Politics – Concepts and Ideas](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/conference-post-liberal-politics-concepts-ideas/) - The focus will be on critique of economic and social liberalism and on alternatives that are fundamentally different from the anti-liberal ideas of populists on the extreme right such as UKIP or the Front National. David Lammy MP will be the keynote speaker on Monday 23rd June 2014 at 10.30am, followed by a panel discussion. - ['Religion is a force for good'](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/religion-force-good/) - Phillip Blond guest speaks at the June 11th DISCUSS debate. - ['Progressive Capitalism: How to make capitalism work as it should do' with Lord Sainsbury & John Kay CBE](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/progressive-capitalism-make-capitalism-work-lord-sainsbury-john-kay-cbe/) - This is a private roundtable event. For further information please contact Elliott Meats, Events and Communications Manager, elliott.mears@respublica.org.uk, 0207 222 6552. - [Markets, Monopolies, and Freedom](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/markets-monopolies-freedom/) - Phillip Blond, Aditya Chakrabortty, Adam Cohen. Isabel Hilton hosts. The internet has democratised knowledge and transformed our lives. But from Microsoft to Apple, its monopolies are rampant. Should we break up the corporations and, like China, build firewalls to keep them out? Would this nurture local economies or threaten the prosperity of the West? Guardian - [Owning the World](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/owning-world/) - Phillip Blond, Owen Jones, Anatole Kaletsky. Isabel Hilton hosts. Ownership is a keystone of our way of life. But companies own forms of life and fewer people own more and more. Is it time to consider radical limits to ownership in search of a fairer, more equal society? Or would this threaten personal freedom and - [Report Launch: 'Power to the People: The mutual future of our National Health Service'](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/report-launch-power-people-mutual-future-national-health-service/) - “Power to the People: The mutual future of our National Health Service”. Please allow sufficient time to pass through security. ResPublica is launching its latest report: ‘Power to the People: The mutual future of our National Health Service'. Supported by Benenden Health, this ResPublica report sets out a new model of mutual health insurance to - ['A Holistic Approach to Building Communities', with Lisa Nandy MP, Shadow Charities Minister](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/holistic-approach-building-communities-lisa-nandy-mp-shadow-charities-minister/) - This is a private roundtable event. For further information please contact Elliott Mears, Events and Communications Manager, elliott.mears@respublica.org.uk, 0207 222 6552. - ['Building Homes, Developing Communities: How can we solve the housing crisis?', with Emma Reynolds MP, Shadow Housing Minister](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/building-homes-developing-communities-can-solve-housing-crisis-emma-reynolds-mp-shadow-housing-minister/) - This is a private roundtable event. For further information please contact Elliott Mears, Events and Communications Manager, elliott.mears@respublica.org.uk, 0207 222 6552. - [The Banking Gap: How payday lenders can support and mainstream the financially excluded](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/banking-gap-payday-lenders-can-support-mainstream-financially-excluded/) - This is a private roundtable discussion in support of a ResPublica research project. In light of current proposals for regulation from the Chancellor, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, as well as from the Financial Conduct Authority, ResPublica will be conducting an in-depth programme of research to explore the ‘banking gap’ and propose new - [The Role of Business in Boosting the Social Economy](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/role-business-boosting-social-economy/) - This is a private roundtable event. For further information please contact Elliott Mears, Events and Communications Manager, elliott.mears@respublica.org.uk, 0207 222 6552. - ['Energy Market Reform: Creating competition and cultivation virtue', with Tom Greatrex MP, Shadow Minister for Energy](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/energy-market-reform-creating-competition-cultivation-virtue-tom-greatrex-mp-shadow-minister-energy/) - This is a private roundtable event. For further information please contact Elliott Mears, Events and Communications Manager, elliott.mears@respublica.org.uk, 0207 222 6552. - [How can the financial sector better serve the needs of society?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/can-financial-sector-better-serve-needs-society/) - Launch of ResPublica's Latest Report: “Markets for the Many: How civic finance can open up markets and widen access”. Launched with opening remarks by Cathy Jamieson MP, Shadow Financial Secretary to the Treasury. ResPublica is launching its latest report: ‘Markets for the Many: How civic finance could open up markets and widen access'. Supported by - [ResPublica's Holistic Mission report scheduled for debate in the House of Lords](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/respublicas-holistic-mission-report-scheduled-debate-house-lords/) - ResPublica is pleased to announce that its recent report, Holistic Mission: Social action and the Church of England, has been scheduled for debate in the House of Lords at 3pm on 21st November 2013. The motion “to move that this House takes note of the July 2013 report of ResPublica ‘Holistic Mission: Social Action and - [Why Can't We Grow Our Own: Competition policy in the tech sector](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/cant-grow-competition-policy-tech-sector/) - Why Can't We Grow Our Own: Competition policy in the tech sector #TechSectorJobs Speakers: George Freeman MP, Chairman of the All Party Group on Science and Technology in Agriculture Marc Pinter-Krainer, Chief Executive, One News Page John Longworth, Director General, British Chambers of Commerce Tim Cowen, Partner, Sidley Austin LLP (Chair) - [Transforming Social Care: Beyond Personalisation](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/transforming-social-care-beyond-personalisation/) - Transforming Social Care: Beyond Personalisation #TransformingCare Speakers: Rt Hon Stephen Dorrell MP, Chair of the Health Select Committee Helen Sanderson, Chief Executive, Helen Sanderson Associates Julia Unwin, Chief Executive, Joseph Rowntree Foundation Steve Scown, Chief Executive, Dimensions UK Alex Fox, Chief Executive, Shared Lives (Chair) Co-hosted with the Dimensions. - [Keeping the Lights On: A 21st Century energy economy](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/keeping-lights-21st-century-energy-economy/) - Keeping the Lights On: A 21st Century energy economy #KeepingTheLightsOn. Speakers: Rt Hon Greg Barker MP, Minister for Energy & Climate Change @GregBarkerMP Laura Sandys MP, Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister for Energy & Climate Change @LauraSandysMP Iain Peters, Managing Director, Energy First at Centrica Caroline Julian, Head of Research, ResPublica @CarolineLJulian Co-hosted with - [To be or not to be in the EU?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/not-eu/) - To be or not to be in the EU? #inoutEU Speakers: Rt Hon Ken Clarke, Minister without Portfolio @KenClarkeMP Peter Bone MP, Member of Parliament for Wellingborough (Invited) @PeterBoneMP David Campbell-Bannerman MEP, Conservative MEP for the Eastern region @DCBMEP Peter Wilding, Director, British Influence @EuroRealist Phillip Blond, Director, ResPublica @Phillip_Blond - [The Economy of Errors: Can understanding human nature help protect consumers](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/economy-errors-can-understanding-human-nature-help-protect-consumers/) - The Economy of Errors: Can understanding human nature help protect consumers #EconomyOfErrors. Financial regulation and enforcement can be a costly endeavour for financial institutions and regulators. Using techniques trialled in behavioural economics to ‘nudge’ market players into good behaviour could both save money and make for a more ethos driven financial sector. This public panel - [4000%: Are payday loans ever in the consumer interest?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/4000-payday-loans-ever-consumer-interest-3/) - 4000% Are payday loans ever in the consumer interest? #PaydayLoansFringe. On the back of a recent Office for Fair Trading report on payday loans; the short-term lending sector has come under increased criticism and scrutiny. With some payday lenders exhibiting unethical and unscrupulous behaviour, it is unclear whether payday lending functions as a crucial form - [Unlocking Growth: How our cities hold the key to economic prosperity](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/unlocking-growth-cities-hold-key-economic-prosperity/) - Unlocking Growth: How our cities hold the key to economic prosperity #UnlockingGrowth. Speakers: Rt Hon Greg Clark MP, Financial Secretary to the Treasury @GregClarkMP Bernard Jenkins MP, Member of Parliament for Harwich and North Essex @BernardJenkin Professor Michael Parkinson CBE, European Institute for Urban Affairs, Liverpool John Moores University Sir Richard Leese, Leader of Manchester City - [The Future of Public Services: Commissioning for innovation](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/future-public-services-commissioning-innovation/) - The Future of Public Services: Commissioning for innovation #BetterPublicServices. Speakers: Rt Hon Nick Hurd MP, Minister for Civil Society Roger Evans, Deputy Chairman of the Assembly Member Joe Irvin, Chief Executive, NAVCA Indy Johar, Chief Executive, The Hub John Tizard, Independent Strategic Adviser on Public Policy & Public Services Co-hosted with National Association for Voluntary - [Communities Consent: Empowering people to shape their neighbourhoods, with Roberta Blackman-Woods MP, Shadow Minister Communities and Local Government](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/communities-consent-empowering-people-shape-neighbourhoods-roberta-blackman-woods-mp-shadow-minister-communities-local-government/) - For further information please contact Elliott Mears, Events and Communications Manager, elliott.mears@respublica.org.uk, 0207 222 6552. - [Keeping it Local: How the planning system can deliver growth, with Rt Hon Hilary Benn MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/keeping-local-planning-system-can-deliver-growth-rt-hon-hilary-benn-mp-shadow-secretary-state-communities-local-government/) - For further information please contact Elliott Mears, Events and Communications Manager, elliott.mears@respublica.org.uk, 0207 222 6552. - [4000%: Are payday loans ever in the consumer interest?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/4000-payday-loans-ever-consumer-interest/) - 4000% Are payday loans ever in the consumer interest? On the back of a recent Office for Fair Trading report on payday loans; the short-term lending sector has come under increased criticism and scrutiny. With some payday lenders exhibiting unethical and unscrupulous behaviour, it is unclear whether payday lending functions as a crucial form of - [4000%: Are payday loans ever in the consumer interest?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/4000-payday-loans-ever-consumer-interest-2/) - 4000% Are payday loans ever in the consumer interest? On the back of a recent Office for Fair Trading report on payday loans; the short-term lending sector has come under increased criticism and scrutiny. With some payday lenders exhibiting unethical and unscrupulous behaviour, it is unclear whether payday lending functions as a crucial form of - [The Community Renewables Economy: Starting up, scaling up and spinning out](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/community-renewables-economy-starting-scaling-spinning/) - ResPublica is launching its latest report: 'The Community Renewables Economy: Starting up, scaling up and spinning out'. Supported by RenewableUK, Co-operative Energy, Airvolution and Infinergy, and drawing on new data based on an independent survey, the Green Paper sets out the potential GW capacity of community energy in the UK, and outlines a series of - [Raising the Roof: A new social bar for housing associations](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/raising-roof-new-social-bar-housing-associations/) - ResPublica hosted a full day 'thought leaders' conference, entitled 'Raising the Roof', which explored and identified a new 'social bar' for housing associations, setting out the sector's ambitions for the future. In the context of the Localism and Social Value Acts, and the enormous transformations in welfare and public sector provision, the conference set out - [Holistic Mission: Social action and the Church of England](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/holistic-mission-social-action-church-england/) - On Wednesday 10th July 2013, ResPublica launched its latest report, Holistic Mission: Social Action and the Church of England, authored by ResPublica Director, Phillip Blond and ResPublica Research Associate, James Noyes. The report urges that the Church must be recognised by the state as an enabling institution that plays a crucial role in delivering public - [Can Protection Insurance Kick-start Lending?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/can-protection-insurance-kick-start-lending/) - On 12th June 2013, ResPublica will launch its latest publication, Risk Waiver: closing the protection gap and easing the flow of credit, which explores the potential for insurance protection products to stimulate the credit market. Recent Bank of England of England statistics suggest current Government attempts to stimulate the market are having a limited effect - [What Does a Mutual Economy Really Look Like?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/mutual-economy-really-look-like/) - On 13th March 2013, ResPublica launched its latest publication, Making It Mutual, which showcases the importance of ownership, mutuality and reciprocity as mainstream principles for the economy and society. With much emphasis on the need for an open and more competitive market, matched with the democratic deficit faced by many of our public institutions, the - [How Will Welfare Reform Affect Local Communities?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/will-welfare-reform-affect-local-communities/) - ResPublica's event 'How Will Welfare Reform Affect Local Communities?' will take the form of a 90 minute panel discussion with Q&A. It will explore the community implications of welfare reform and ask whether we need localism policies that take into account reciprocal welfare measures and local employment markets which include informal work and volunteering. The - [The Future of the Press: Does hyperlocal deserve the hype?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/event/future-press-hyperlocal-deserve-hype/) - Local newspapers play an important social role in our communities, reporting on local issues which would otherwise go unnoticed by the national press and holding local services and politicians up to close scrutiny. In his investigation of the British press Lord Leveson warned that their demise would be a huge setback for democracy. However, despite ## Our People - [Asheem Singh](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/asheem-singh/) - Asheem Singh is a social entrepreneur and author. As a lead researcher he created ResPublica’s Civil Society and Social Innovation Unit from December 2009-April 2011, where he oversaw partnerships with charities, social enterprises, trade groups and the Fabian Society. He is the author of the critically acclaimed book 'The Moral Marketplace: how mission-driven millennials and - [Rakib Ehsan](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/associates/rakib-ehsan/) - Dr Rakib Ehsan is an academic, writer, and media commentator specialising in matters of social cohesion, democratic governance, and public security. Rakib holds a BA in Politics & International Relations (First-Class Honours), MSc in Democracy, Politics and Governance (Pass with Distinction), and a PhD in Political Science - all obtained from Royal Holloway, University of - [Mark Morrin](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/the-team/mark-morrin/) - Mark is an experienced policy and research strategist with over 20 years working in partnership with businesses, public bodies, cities and counties to develop successful place-making strategies. Mark has contributed widely to research and policy developments in the UK with particular expertise in the fields of economic development, employment and skills, public service reform and - [Mike Mavrommatis](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/the-team/mike-mavrommatis/) - Mike Mavrommatis is tasked with devising and implementing ResPublica’s Communications strategy and Events activity. He focuses on enhancing the integration between the various pieces of RePublica’s work, and fostering coherent messaging across the board for audiences and stakeholders. In addition, Mike leads the effort to widen ResPublica's partners network, as well as to secure financial - [Joe Cowen](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/joe-cowen/) - Joe joined ResPublica in January 2018, providing research and consultancy on our technology, higher education and international trade projects. Joe joined the team after completing his masters in International Relations at the University of Melbourne and King's College London. Joe has an LLB in Law from the University of Bristol and has previously worked or - [Jon Egan](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/associates/jon-egan/) - Jon Egan is an experienced policy and communication strategist. With over 20 years working for politicians in Westminster and Europe, He was also formerly a campaign strategist for the Labour Party helping to deliver its key seat strategy for the successful 1997 General Election campaign. He was also creative lead for Liverpool’s successful bid to - [Adrian Harvey](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/associates/adrian-harvey/) - Adrian Harvey is a writer and policy professional with twenty years' experienced gained in local government, Whitehall, NGOs and think tanks. Adrian worked as a Policy Adviser to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government and was previously Head of Policy at the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, where he led - [Phillip Blond](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/the-team/phillip-blond/) - Phillip is an internationally recognised political thinker and social and economic commentator. He bridges the gap between politics and practice, offering strategic consultation and policy formation to governments, businesses and organisations across the world. He founded ResPublica in 2009 and is an academic, journalist and author. Prior to entering politics and public policy, he was - [Tim Cowen](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/tim-cowen/) - Tim Cowen is an equity partner at Preiskel & Co and is independently recognised as one of the leading telecoms and technology regulatory/competition lawyers in the EU. Tim led BT’s competition law and public policy team for many years and has specialist expertise in the competition issues arising from the mergers of telecommunications companies. He - [Guy Shrubsole](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/guy-shrubsole/) - Guy Shrubsole is Director of Public Interest Research Centre (PIRC), an independent charity whose work is aimed towards building a sustainable society. He previously worked for the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and New Zealand’s Ministry of Agriculture. - [Dr Patrycja Kaszynska](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/dr-patricia-kaszynska/) - Dr Patrycja Kaszynska is a Research Associate, having been a Senior Researcher and Project Manager from September 2011- August 2012. Her interests lie in the field of education and skills policy, culture and sport, as well as capabilities and behavioural change. She is specifically interested in the role of the arts and culture in promoting - [Martin Kirk](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/martin-kirk/) - Martin Kirk is Head of UK Campaigns at Oxfam. He leads Oxfam’s campaigning across England, Scotland and Wales, on issues ranging from reform of the global food system to the Robin Hood Tax. He is the co-author of Finding Frames: New Ways to Engage the UK Public on Global Poverty (BOND, 2011) and has been leading Oxfam’s work - [Tom Crompton](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/tom-crompton/) - Tom Crompton is Change Strategist at WWF-UK. He leads WWF-UK’s Strategies for Change Project, and is author of Weathercocks and Signposts: The Environment Movement at a Crossroads (WWF, 2008) and (with Tim Kasser) Meeting Environmental Challenges: The Role of Human Identity (WWF, 2009). His report Common Cause: The Case for Working with Our Cultural Values was - [David Fagleman](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/david-fagleman/) - David worked in ResPublica's Prosperity Programme from 2013-2015. He worked on several publications including Making Markets Work for the Many: How Civic Finance can open up markets and widen access, Power to the People: The mutual future of our National Health Service and Virtuous Banking: Placing ethos and purpose at the heart of finance. In - [Richard Sagar](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/richard-sagar/) - Richard joined ResPublica in June 2014, having previously worked for environmental NGOs and trade associations. Prior to that he was a postgraduate in philosophy, with a particular interest in the philosophy of cognitive science, epistemology and the philosophy of religion. If you are having trouble sleeping, his Mphil thesis is available here. He has a - [Keith Cooper](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/keith-cooper/) - Keith Cooper is a journalist and researcher, who writes regularly on public policy for UK press and online media. He is former deputy editor of Inside Housing magazine and spent his early career in the NHS. Keith recently completed an MA in Ethics, Politics and Public Policy and is currently a PhD candidate at the - [Julian Dobson](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/julian-dobson/) - Julian Dobson is a ResPublica Research Associate. He is a writer, speaker and commentator on regeneration, place-making, civil society and social policy. He is also a trainer, adviser and facilitator, working with organisations on creative solutions to the problems of place. He is the director of Urban Pollinators (www.urbanpollinators.co.uk), which helps make sense of regeneration, - [Pete Duncan](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/pete-duncan/) - Pete is a Director at Social Regeneration Consultants, which he set up in 1993. He has spent nearly all his career working in the field of community-led regeneration and neighbourhood planning, especially in our more deprived areas. He was a leading figure in the development of 25 housing cooperatives across North East England in the - [Will Fox](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/will-fox/) - Will Fox is Public Affairs Manager at the RIBA, leading on the Institute’s work with government and parliament and increasingly with local authorities. Will formerly worked as a consultant at FD Public Affairs. - [Mark Lupton](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/mark-lupton/) - Mark is an Independent Housing Policy Analyst who has written extensively on housing policy issues and has managed a wide range of policy and research projects. Mark has wide-ranging experience in the housing sector having worked with the CIH as Director of Operations and Deputy Chief Executive and from 1997 to 2007, was Policy Analyst - [James Parkinson](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/james-parkinson/) - James Parkinson is Policy Officer at the RIBA with a focus on planning policy and localism. He has overseen the RIBA guide to localism series; introducing neighbourhood planning and exploring community engagement, and is looking at effective participation tools. 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Richard has written four books and regularly appears in the national print and - [Hannah Merron](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/hannah-merron/) - Hannah joined ResPublica in June 2014 as Operations Manager, after three years working in education and professional development. She left us in October 2015, to work in the Corporate Partnerships team at Teach First. When she is not working, Hannah can be found sampling the many fine restaurants of London or behind her sewing machine, - [Jessica Trevellick](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/jessica-trevellick/) - Jessica Trevellick is a Senior Researcher at ResPublica. Jessica began her career at Santander where she held positions in retail banking and asset management. She then moved to the Financial Services Authority and has worked in regulation ever since. 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In particular, this includes understanding how devolution and changing commissioning models are impacting on reforming health - [Dr Justin Schlosberg](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/dr-justin-schlosberg/) - Justin Schlosberg is a media activist, researcher and lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London. He is the author of Power Beyond Scrutiny: Media, Justice and Accountability, and the co-founder of the Media Reform Coalition - [Stephen Ibbotson](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/stephen-ibbotson/) - Stephen trained as an ICAEW Chartered Accountant with Ernst and Young in London where he worked in audit on a diverse range of companies before moving into a career in industry. In his business career Stephen gained a wide range of experience in transformational initiatives including restructuring, outsourcing and major IT systems implementations. 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He regularly blogs about EU affairs - [Dr Dan Boucher](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/dr-dan-boucher/) - Dr Dan Boucher was a Welsh Conservative candidate on the South Wales West Conservative List in the 2016 Assembly elections. He also stood for the Welsh Conservatives in the 2014 European Elections and 2011 Assembly elections. His previous publications include The Big Society in a Small Country published in 2013 by the Institute of Welsh - [Margareta Pagano](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/margareta-pagano/) - Margareta Pagano is a columnist and the Independent and the Independent on Sunday. She is one of the UK's leading financial journalists and has worked for the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Telegraph, the Times and the Sunday Times. A founding editor of the Financial News, Margareta helped turn this specialist newspaper into one of - [Simon Caulkin](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/simon-caulkin/) - Simon Caulkin is a writer on management and business. He was for 16 years the Observer’s management columnist, contributing nearly 800 articles on subjects ranging from the birth of rock ‘n’ roll to Baby P and the banking crisis. A former editor of Management Today, he is a fierce critic of modern management methods and - [Zac Goldsmith MP](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/zac-goldsmith-mp/) - Zac Goldsmith is the Conservative MP for Richmond Park and North Kingston. He was the Editor of the Ecologist Magazine for 10 years and remains Director of the Ecologist. In 2005 he was asked to oversee a wide-ranging review of environmental policy for the Conservative Party. 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Roger is a leading - [Professor Roger Scruton](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/professor-roger-scruton/) - Roger Scruton is an adjunct scholar of the American Enterprise Institute in Washington DC. Prior to that he was a research professor for the Institute for the Psychological Sciences. He is a fellow of Blackfriars Hall in Oxford and a member of the Philosophy Faculty. He is also Visiting Professor at the University of St - [Professor Nicholas Rengger](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/professor-nicholas-rengger/) - Nicholas Rengger is Professor of Political Theory and International Relations at St Andrews University. He has just stepped down as editor of the Review of International Studies (2006-2010), the leading UK Academic Journal of International Studies and has served on the executive of the British International Studies Association and the International Studies Association and on - [Professor Julian Lindley-French](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/professor-julian-lindley-french/) - Julian Lindley-French PhD MA (Dist.), MA (Oxon.) Julian Lindley-French is a leading strategic analyst, author and commentator who has been appointed to three professorial chairs, has seven books to his name and has written many articles and reports. He is currently Senior Fellow at the Institute of Statecraft London, Director of Europa Analytica, Distinguished Visiting - [Professor John Seddon](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/professor-john-seddon/) - John Seddon is an occupational psychologist and management thinker, credited with developing the systems approach to the design and management of service organisations. He has been an ardent critic of public-sector reform, arguing that the reform agenda has worsened public services and driven up costs. Those who follow and apply his ideas achieve performance improvements - [Professor Alan Riley](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/professor-alan-riley/) - Professor Alan Riley is one of the leading competition law scholars in the United Kingdom. He chairs the Competition Law Scholars Forum www.clasf.org. He has written widely on competition law issues in major law journals such as the International & Comparatively Law Quarterly, the European Law Review and the European Competition Law Review. His principal - [Matthew Bowcock](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/matthew-bowcock/) - Matthew Bowcock was until recently chair of UK Community Foundations (previously the Community Foundation Network). His background is in technology entrepreneurship, company start-up, international marketing, venture capital and company directorship. Since 2005 he has been working almost exclusively to develop a new culture of engaged philanthropy in Britain. After a Law degree he entered the - [James Featherby](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/james-featherby/) - James Featherby has worked in the City for over 30 years. He is Chair of the Church of England Ethical Investment Advisory Group, having formerly been a corporate partner of Slaughter and May for more than 20 years. He is the author of Of Markets and Men: reshaping finance for a new season and The - [Indy Johar](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/indy-johar/) - Indy Johar is a qualified architect and place strategist. He co-founded 00:/ [zer’o zer’o] in 2005, a research-driven design practice focused on re-imagining, re-thinking, re-designing and re-organising place. The practice’s work supports physical and spatial interventions catalysed by the synthesis of quantitative & qualitative research with a community & market generative approach. Project range from - [Francis Davis](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/francis-davis/) - Francis Davis is the founder of the Cathedral Innovation Centre and movement first show-cased in Res Publica’s Making It Mutual collection. A graduate of Warwick Business School and London (SOAS) university and has taught social enterprise, social sciences and community development at Cambridge and Oxford. His publications on enterprise, EU anti-poverty strategies, migration, public service - [Ed Mayo](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/ed-mayo/) - Ed Mayo is Secretary General of Co-operatives UK, the membership network for co-operative businesses. He is a long-term co-operator and has a track record of innovation and impact in his work to together economic life and social justice. Ed was one of the team who founded the Fairtrade Mark, which sources products from co-operatives and - [David Fletcher](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/david-fletcher/) - David joined Odey in 1995 initially as Chief Executive Officer and today he is Chairman focusing on business supervision and strategy and heads investment research. David joined Odey from Leopold Joseph, the UK merchant bank, where he was CEO and had worked since 1980. David graduated from New College, Oxford, in 1980. - [David Burrowes MP](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/david-burrowes-mp/) - David Burrowes is Member of Parliament for Enfield Southgate and PPS to Owen Paterson as Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. - [Danny Kruger](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/danny-kruger/) - Danny is the chief executive of Only Connect, a charity working with youth at risk, prisoners and ex-offenders. He graduated from Edinburgh University in 1997 with an MA in history and from Oxford University with a DPhil in 2000. He was successively director of studies for the Centre for Policy Studies, chief leader writer at - [Chris White MP](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/chris-white-mp/) - Chris White was elected as Warwick and Leamington's new MP at the 2010 General Election, having previously stood at the General Election in 2005. Before his election he worked locally in Public Relations, having previously worked at Longbridge with MG Rover. Chris lives in Warwick, and plays an active role in the local community, serving - [Barry C. Lynn](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/barry-c-lynn/) - Barry C. Lynn is an expert in the political and economic dangers posed by monopolization. His groundbreaking work detailing how monopolists can destabilize vital industrial systems has attracted the attention of governments in Tokyo, London, Berlin, Brussels, and Beijing, as well as Washington. He is a leader of the growing movement to use traditional republican - [Anthony Browne](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/anthony-browne/) - Anthony Browne has worked for the Mayor of London since October 2008. As well as giving general policy advice to the Mayor, he leads on economic and business policy. He has responsibility in the Mayor's office for the London Development Agency, and is an LDA Board member. He was previously director of Policy Exchange, the - [Hazel Blears MP](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/hazel-blears-mp/) - With over a decade’s experience in high profile executive positions, Hazel has operated at the most senior levels of government and commerce. An experienced influencer and shaper of policy, she has successfully navigated important legislation across a broad canvass of important national matters including Security, Local Government and Health. Between 2003 – 2006 Hazel was - [Rafe Martyn](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/rafe-martyn/) - Rafe is an economics PhD student at the University of Cambridge. He co-founded the Cambridge Society for Economic Pluralism (CSEP) as well as the Rethinking Economics student network. Both organisations seek to make economics education more critical, open and relevant. Previously, he worked for 6 months in microfinance in Tanzania and for two years in management consulting - [Bridget Rosewell](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/bridget-rosewell/) - Bridget Rosewell (OBE) is a professional economist and business woman. She has founded several economic consultancies, all of which are still successfully operating, and also has several non-executive roles with major organisations. Bridget has just been appointed as Commissioner for the independent National Infrastructure Commission, put together by George Osborne. Her interests include risk and - [Adam Afriyie](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/adam-afriyie/) - Adam Afriyie has been Conservative MP for Windsor since 2005. He is currently Chairman of the Select Committee on Members’ Expenses, Chairman of the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology and Chairman of the Parliamentary Space Committee. He was Shadow Minister for Science and Innovation from 2007 to 2010. Before entering Parliament he was a successful entrepreneur.He was - [Lucy Gregg](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/lucy-gregg/) - Lucy works in The Children’s Society’s policy team where her portfolio covers asylum and immigration policy, focusing on unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, victims of trafficking and refugee and migrant families. Previously she worked for a number of NGOs including Asylum Aid, Plan International and Oxfam GB. - [Kadra Abdinasir](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/kadra-abdinasir/) - Kadra is Policy and Research Assistant at The Children's Society. She supports the policy and research team, and their work in Parliament. Previously she worked in a secondary school providing support to recently arrived refugee children. - [Malcolm Brown](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/malcolm-brown-2/) - Malcolm is Director of Mission and Public Affairs for the Church of England. - [Tristram Stuart](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/tristram-stuart/) - Tristram Stuart is an international award-winning author, speaker, campaigner, and expert on the environmental and social impacts of food production. His books, The Bloodless Revolution (2006) and Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal (2009), have been described as "a genuinely revelatory contribution to this history of human ideas” (Daily Telegraph) and his TED talk has - [Dr Rupert Read](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/dr-rupert-read/) - Rupert Read is a reader of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia, and has written extensively on environmental and political issues. He is chair of Green House think tank, a cross-party group that seeks to promote awareness of the contradictions between sustainability and growth-based economics. - [Professor Jurgen Denecke](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/professor-jurgen-denecke/) - Jurgen Denecke is Professor of Plant and Cell Biotechnology at the University of Leeds. He is a member of the Centre for Plant Sciences, which is a centre for excellence in plant cell and molecular biology. The research carried out by his team is mainly curiosity- and hypothesis-driven, and they use biochemical transport assays, cellular - [Ben Goldsmith](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/ben-goldsmith/) - Ben Goldsmith is CEO of Menhaden Capital, a new energy and resources focused investment trust listed on the London stock exchange. Previously, in 2005 Ben founded WHEB, one of Europe's leading specialist sustainability-focused fund management businesses. Ben is Chairman of the UK Conservative Environment Network and of the Goldsmith family’s environment-focused philanthropic foundation, the JMG - [Dan Crossley](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/dan-crossley/) - Dan Crossley is Executive Director at the Food Ethics Council, a charity that works with businesses, government and civil society to address ethical concerns at the heart of decision-making about food and farming. Dan has worked on food sustainability issues for over a decade. He was formerly acting Head of Food at Forum for the - [Dr Cesar Revoredo-Giha](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/dr-cesar-revoredo-giha/) - Dr Cesar Revoredo-Giha is Senior Economist and Team Leader of Food Marketing Research at Scotland's Rural College (SRUC). He is an applied economist specialising in the industrial organisation of food markets, international trade and econometrics. He has a PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California-Davis. After the PhD he worked for - [Joanna Lewis](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/joanna-lewis/) - Joanna Lewis is Strategy and Policy Director for Soil Association Food for Life, an award-winning national programme which is about making good food the easy choice for everyone, whoever and wherever they are. In 2009 Joanna founded the Food for Life Catering Mark, a quality assurance scheme for caterers committed to high standards of nutrition, - [David Lawrence](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/david-lawrence/) - David is the Parliamentary Communications Officer at the Keep Sunday Special campaign, and works part time as a community organiser in North London. - [Tom Burgess](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/tom-burgess/) - Tom Burgess is Executive Director of the Progressive Policy Unit and the author of a new book From Here to Prosperity, an Agenda for Progressive Prosperity based on the inequality-busting strategy of Income for me, wealth for we, which will be published in January 2016. Tom is a serial entrepreneur; he was most recently CEO - [Thom Goddard](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/thom-goddard/) - Thom Goddard is Councillor on Uttlesford District Council, Essex, and has previously been a Councillor at the London Borough of Waltham Forest. - [Ian Geary](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/ian-geary/) - Ian Geary works in Parliament for Stephen Timms MP, Labour’s Shadow Minister for Employment and Faith Envoy. Ian has served on the CSM/Christians on the Left Executive since 2010. He is co-editor of ‘‘Blue Labour: Forging a New Politics’, IB Tauris 2015. He writes for ResPublica in a personal capacity. - [Richard Chapman](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/richard-chapman/) - Richard Chapman is the Church of England's Secretary for Parliamentary Affairs, heading the Parliamentary Unit at Church House. The Unit is the lead office for liaison with MPs and Peers and provides support to the 26 bishops that sit in the House of Lords, as well as the Second Church Estates Commissioner (Tony Baldry MP). - [Gregory Horne](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/gregory-horne/) - Greg Horne is a politics student who worked with ResPublica during the Summer of 2015. - [Michael Fotis](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/michael-fotis/) - Michael Fotis is the founder of Smart Money People (https://smartmoneypeople.com). Smart Money People is on a mission to use the power of customer reviews to help increase trust and transparency in financial services. Michael previously worked as a management consultant across Retail Banking and Insurance. He holds a Masters from the University of Cambridge. - [Jena Rajanayagam](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/jena-rajanayagam/) - Jena is an MA Student from Richmond the American International University, in London. He began his masters course in Advertising and Public Relations last September in 2014, and is due to complete his post graduate studies this September. After completing an Internship experience at a integrated creative agency in Holborn this summer, called Chaos, he - [David Janner-Klausner](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/david-janner-klausner/) - David Janner-Klausner is Co-Founder of Commonplace (http//:commonplace.is) and its Director of Business Development. David has worked in senior executive roles in local government, environmental and educational organisations. He has led a variety of innovative initiatives in the public and charity sectors. One of his favourites is Transport Today and Tomorrow, Israel's campaign for sustainable transport, - [Vicente Arancon](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/vicente-arancon/) - Vicente is Global Executive Director at the Fidelis International Institute. He is an Industrial Engineer from the Universidad Iberoamericana. He holds a Diploma in Marketing from the same university. Vicente has a wide experience in the corporate world, having worked both as an executive and as consultant for several international companies, such as Nestlé, Mabe - [Ed Rennie](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/ed-rennie/) - Ed joined ResPublica in August 2014 and headed up the Virtue Principle which, alongside Prosperity and Society, will guide ResPublica’s workstreams for the coming period. The Virtue principle will develop research projects on how to inculcate culture change to establish ethos, character and equal dignity at the heart of our businesses, institutions and as the - [Elena Antonacopoulou](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/elena-antonacopoulou/) - Elena Antonacopoulou is a Professor of Organizational Behaviour at University of Liverpool Management School. She previously held faculty positions at Warwick Business School, Manchester Business School and the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST). She earned her PhD (1996) from the University of Warwick and she holds a Masters Degree in Management - [Brett Pingree](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/brett-pingree/) - Brett Pingree, VP Commercial at Endurance Wind Power, is a seasoned distributed wind energy expert. He was a long serving member of AWEA’s Small Wind Committee and served as chair of AWEA’s Distributed Wind Committee. He was also a founding member and a Board of Director for DWEA and was named AWEA’s “Small Wind Advocate - [Sarah Banks](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/sarah-banks/) - Sarah Banks has a background in community development and worked in the voluntary sector and local authority social services before joining Durham University. Her degrees are in philosophy, social history and social work. Her research interests include professional ethics, community development, community-based participatory research and work with young people. She initiated the European Social Ethics - [Matt Ferkany](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/matt-ferkany/) - Matt Ferkany is an Assistant Professor in the Teacher Education department at Michigan State University. A philosopher by training, his research focuses on political, ethical, and pedagogical problems relating to environmental education, civic and moral education, and well-being and virtue. He is currently working on a project funded by the Spencer Foundation on the virtues - [Henry Fagg](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/henry-fagg/) - Henry is a director and founder of The Tutor Pages, an award-winning online hub for private tuition in the UK. Qualified in comparative and international education, he has published researchon holistic and self-reliant educational models and practices. He blogs on anything to do with the UK private tuition industry at www.thetutorblog.com. - [Rosalind Wyatt](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/rosalind-wyatt/) - Rosalind graduated from The Royal College of Art in 2001 in constructed Textiles and works as a studio based artist in London. - [Rebecca Gouldson](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/rebecca-gouldson/) - Rebecca is an artist and maker of metal wall art. You can see her work by visiting her website - [Annabelle Campbell](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/annabelle-campbell/) - Annabelle Campbell is Head of Exhibitions and Collections at the Crafts Council. Annabelle’s specific responsibilities include; overseeing the Collection and all related projects, the exhibition and touring programmes, the online exhibition programme, partnership development, also the curatorial CPD development initiatives Key projects include Spark Plug Curator Awards, Crafts Council/V&A exhibitions Out of the Ordinary and - [James Boardwell](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/james-boardwell/) - James Boardwell is the founder of folksy.com @folksy - [Maria Balermpa](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/maria-balermpa/) - Maria Balermpa is Policy and Consultations Manager at Creative Skillset. - [Julia Bennett](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/julia-bennett/) - Julia is the Crafts Council’s Research and Policy Manager. Her recent research projects include Studying Craft, a retrospective analysis of trends in craft education and training and Defining and Measuring Craft, a set of proposals which resulted in DCMS including craft data for the first time in its economic estimates. As an experienced research manager, - [Duncan Chamberlain](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/duncan-chamberlain/) - http://www.bridgingtothefuture.co.uk @Bridgingfuture Founder and Managing Director, Bridging to the Future Duncan is the inspiration and spirit behind Bridging to the Future. His experience encompasses working for multinationals (including Whitbread), SMEs, social enterprises and as an entrepreneur. He has also worked as a senior leader in high performing schools and for an A Level examination board. His - [Andy Reeve](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/andy-reeve/) - Chief Data Officer & Co-Founder of Impact Hub Birmingham - [Dan Zastawny](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/3624-2/) - Dan is a Senior Consultant at Bridging To The Future, and Co-Founder of Impact Hub Birmingham - [John Midgley](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/john-midgley/) - John Midgley works on global public policy for Intuit, who provide cloud accounting software for small businesses. He also chairs the techUK Public Policy Group. John writes here in a personal capacity. - [Vicente López-Ibor Mayor](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/vicente-lopez-ibor-mayor/) - Vicente López-Ibor Mayor is Chairman of Lightsource Renewable Energy Ltd, Britain’s largest solar energy company. 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At ResPublica he has - [Tom Versluys](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/tom-versluys/) - Tom studied history at the University of Edinburgh, where his main interests lay in philosophy, intellectual history, religion, and crusading scholarship. He has spent several years working as a part-time freelance writer, and joined ResPublica as a Research Assistant in September 2013, where he has worked mainly on community energy. - [Stephen Lock](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/stephen-lock/) - Stephen is a former Research Assistant at ResPublica, working within the British Civic Life workstream, with research specialities in the history of political thought, legal affairs and the media. A recent graduate in Classics from the University of Cambridge and a holder of the Graduate Diploma in Law, he is interested in questions of political accountability, - [Samuel Middleton](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/samuel-middleton/) - Samuel Middleton was researcher at ResPublica from its foundation in 2009 until May 2011. His interests lie in strategic communications, technology and the convergence of web and mobile, group psychology and social enterprise. He co-authored the report "Digital Giving" with Asheem Singh. Samuel graduated from University College London with a Masters Degree in Modern History - [Kim Mandeng](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/kim-mandeng/) - Kim Mandeng was a researcher at ResPublica from October 2009 - April 2011, contributing research to projects on social innovation and safeguarding children, as well as public health and obesity. Kim also worked as a researcher in parliament and as a freelance editor for policy projects on a range of criminal justice issues (prison reform, - [Penny Yewers](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/penny-yewers/) - Penny graduated from the University of Melbourne with a BA (Hons) in Politics and International Relations. She has worked extensively in social policy in Australia advising on matters relating to community development, youth services, health and social services. Most recently Penny worked in a government strategy unit seeking to reform the entirety of social services - [Caroline Macfarland](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/caroline-macfarland/) - Caroline was the Managing Director of the ResPublica Trust from January 2012 until March 2013. She joined ResPublica before its launch in November 2009 and played an integral part in its development from a start-up to a leading think tank, working on operations, business development, fundraising and communications strategy. In January 2012 she was appointed - [Chris Hayes ](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/chris-hayes/) - [Mike Wilkins B.Sc. MCIH](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/mike-wilkins-b-sc-mcih/) - Mike started his career in housing management with Westminster City Council and was a senior estate manager and then an Assistant Divisional Director. He has worked in a number of housing associations; including Notting Hill Housing Trust as a Development Manager where he set up a sucessful procurement team providing managed homes for homeless families - [Antony Mason](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/antony-mason/) - Antony Mason is a writer and editor. He is the main editor for the Intergenerational Foundation (IF), and one of the editors of theIntergenerational Justice Review, co-published by the Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations and IF. The author of some 85 books, as a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund he was a - [Liz Emerson](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/liz-emerson/) - Liz Emerson is a Co-Founder of the Intergenerational Foundation (IF) with a particular interest in demographic change, voting and representation. With more than 20 years’ experience in commercial and public policy communications, PR and strategic planning, she is responsible for IF’s press relations and communications. - [David Kingman](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/david-kingman/) - David Kingman is a researcher at the Intergenerational Foundation (IF) in London, a think tank that conducts research into intergenerational equity. He is especially interested in how intergenerational justice relates to such issues as housing, pensions, the national debt and political representation. He has recently written research papers on property taxation in Britain and intergenerational - [Angus Hanton](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/angus-hanton/) - Angus Hanton is a Co-Founder of the Intergenerational Foundation (IF). As a baby boomer with teenage children, he realises that he has enjoyed many of the unearned advantages of belonging to this cohort, while as an economist and entrepreneur he is acutely aware of the accumulation of debts that are being passed on to younger - [Ben Dyson](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/ben-dyson/) - Ben founded Positive Money in 2010 and works on the campaign full time. Ben has spent the last five years figuring out what’s wrong with the financial system. He now spends his time working on the Positive Money campaign, working with MPs, think tanks, charities, academics and unions to promote a better understanding of the - [Howard Dawber](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/howard-dawber/) - Howard Dawber is Strategic Advisor at Canary Wharf Group. He has previously been a Parliamentary Candidate for the Labour Party and an adviser on government-business relations. Howard is the Chair of a Community Foundation in East London, and a board member of two Olympic Legacy charities: Legacy Trust and Legacy List. - [Alastair Marke](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/alastair-marke/) - Alastair Marke is a Research Associate at ResPublica, working within the New Economies, Innovative Markets workstream. In ResPublica, he has participated in projects relating to co-operative council, new company models, social financing and community energy, etc. Prior to joining ResPublica, Alastair has previously worked as a policy advisor to a think tank advocating new economics - [Jelte Harnmeijer](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/jelte-harnmeijer/) - Jelte Harnmeijer is a director at SCENE Ltd., where he is tasked with furthering SCENE’s mandate of supporting and facilitating broader access to investment in renewable energy generation. He has many years of experience working in both the developed and developing world as a researcher and programme manager. He obtained a PhD at the University - [David Llewellyn](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/david-llewellyn/) - Professor David Llewellyn, Professor of Money and Banking at Loughborough University, is also currently Chairman of the Board of the Banking Stakeholder Group at the European Banking Authority (EBA). He has published widely in the area of financial regulation, acted as a consultant to regulatory agencies in several countries and was a Public Interest Director - [Zoe Stavri](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/zoe-stavri/) - Zoe Stavri works as a campaigner with Local Works, the campaign to reverse community decline and implement the Sustainable Communities Act. - [Zaki Cooper](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/zaki-cooper/) - Zaki Cooper is an inter-faith activist and a Trustee of the Council of Christians and Jews. He has written widely on the subject of faith in the national media and for think-tank publications. A communications professional, he has worked in a range of corporate and public service environments, including a spell in the Chief Rabbi’s - [William Brett](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/william-brett/) - [Yossi Ives](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/yossi-ives/) - Rabbi Dr. Yossi Ives Yossi is the founder and chief executive of Tag Institute for Social Development (www.taginstitute.org), a think tank and research centre that addressed pressing social challenges, and Tag International Development, a humanitarian organisation that shares expertise with developing countries (www.tagdevelopment.org). He is a life coach and is the author of several books. - [Warren Alexander](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/warren-alexander/) - Warren joined the Charity Retail Association as Chief Executive in November 2009. Before that he was Chief Executive of Core, a charity funding research into digestive disorders. He has worked in the charity world for much of his career, mainly in marketing and fundraising. He has previously been Head of Fundraising at the Prostate Cancer - [Vittorio Trevitt](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/vittorio-trevitt/) - [Tristan Wilkinson](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/tristan-wilkinson/) - Tristan is the founder of Digital Citizens, a company set up to deliver thought leadership and delivery collaboration for Smart Cities. Tristan has spent over twenty years working across several technology companies, in a variety of leadership roles, mostly in sales, marketing and business development. Tristan spent over thirteen years working at Intel where he - [Titus Alexander](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/titus-alexander/) - Titus Alexander is Convenor of Democracy Matters, an informal network of over 30 organisations promoting education for practical politics. He is Director of Policy at People Can, a social justice charity formerly Novas Scarman. Titus has been called a “one man think tank” on community action, citizenship, education, family learning, social innovation and global issues. - [Simon Roberts](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/simon-roberts/) - Simon Roberts OBE is Chief Executive of the charity the Centre for Sustainable Energy. He has been helping people, organisations, and policy-makers develop effective responses to the threat of climate change and the misery of cold homes for more than 25 years. - [Stephen Dunne](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/stephen-dunne/) - Stephen Dunne joined AMP Capital in 1994 and was appointed Managing Director in 2004. He has over 25 years’ experience in investment management, both in Australia and in the United Kingdom. AMP Capital is a leading investment house with a heritage and strength in real estate and infrastructure and provide clients with contemporary solutions in - [Sarah Teather MP](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/sarah-teather-mp/) - Sarah Louise Teather is a British Liberal Democrat politician, Member of Parliament for Brent Central, and founder of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Guantanamo Bay. She is currently Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Refugees. - [Sandra Gruescu](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/sandra-gruescu/) - Dr Sandra Gruescu led ResPublica's work around children and families policy from January 2010 until August 2011. She co-authored 'Asset Building for Children' with Phillip Blond, published in Autumn 2010. She was previously a senior research fellow at the Social Market Foundation, and worked extensively in public policy research and consultancy, especially in the areas - [Sarah Dunwell](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/sarah-dunwell/) - Sarah Dunwell is Director of Social Affairs at Company Shop. She has been part of the team driving forward this exciting new social enterprise project. Sarah is a member of the London Food Board and an ambassador for Leeds Enterprise Centre. - [Robert Hazell](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/robert-hazell/) - Robert Hazell is Professor of British Politics and Government & Director of the Constitution Unit. - [Ron Glatter](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/ron-glatter/) - Ron Glatter is Emeritus Professor of Educational Administration and Management at the U.K.’s Open University, where he was a Professor for many years. Before that he was Reader in Educational Administration at the Institute of Education, University of London. He was the founding Secretary of what is now called the British Educational Leadership, Management and - [Rebecca Willis](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/rebecca-willis/) - Rebecca Willis is an independent researcher. Her work focuses on environmental politics and policymaking at both a national and local level. Rebecca convenes Green Alliance’s Climate Leadership Programme for MPs, and advises the Lake District National Park on climate change. In May 2011 she was appointed as a Council Member of the Natural Environment Research - [Rob Shorthouse](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/rob-shorthouse/) - Rob is the Director of Communications for Better Together, the principal organisation representing the parties, organisations, and individuals campaigning for a No vote in the Scottish independence. - [Rachel Pettigrew](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/rachel-pettigrew/) - Rachel Pettigrew has worked as a Senior Economist at EEF since March 2012. She is involved in EEF’s work on the economy and industrial policy, which encompasses both macro-economic issues and matters relating to productivity and competitiveness. Rachel contributes to the department’s work on issues including investment; tax; exporting; access to finance; and economic forecasting. - [Professor Simon Lee](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/professor-simon-lee/) - Simon Lee is the Emeritus Professor of Jurisprudence, Queen’s University Belfast and was formerly Vice-Chancellor of Leeds Metropolitan University and Rector and Chief Executive of Liverpool Hope University. He is also Chair of Level Partnerships Ltd., which provides services to foster partnerships in sport, the arts, education, housing, diverse communities, businesses, health services and the - [Professor Samuel Fankhauser](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/professor-samuel-fankhauser/) - Prof Samuel Fankhauser is Co-Director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and Deputy Director of the ESRC-funded Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, both at the London School of Economics. He is also a Director of economics consultancy Vivid Economics. Sam serves on the Committee on Climate Change, an independent public body - [Professor Matt Qvortrup](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/professor-matt-qvortrup/) - [Philip Wolfe](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/philip-wolfe/) - Philip Wolfe has been involved in sustainable energy since the early 1970’s. He is chairman of Westmill Solar Co-operative, believed to be the largest community-owned solar power station in the world. Westmill is playing a leadership role in the action programme and the formation of a representative association for the community energy sector. - [Peter Kelly](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/peter-kelly/) - Peter has thirty years’ experience across banking and community finance and has been with Unity for the past year. He set up the first financial inclusion unit in the UK banking sector while at Barclays. In Ghana he launched an innovative and sustainable proposition to link Susu, an indigenous financial services system, to mainstream banking. - [Peter Couchman](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/peter-couchman/) - Peter is the Chief Executive of the Plunkett, which supports rural communities to take control of the services that matter to them through co-operative ownership. He joined Plunkett in 2009, having spent the previous 27 years working in consumer co-ops with a particular focus on modernising membership and communicating the co-operative difference. - [Peter Duncan](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/peter-duncan/) - Peter Duncan is Managing Director of Message Matters, a strategic communications consultancy in Edinburgh, which is retained by Reform Scotland. He is a former Conservative MP. - [Nicholas Blincoe](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/nicholas-blincoe/) - [Neil Wiggins](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/neil-wiggins/) - Neil Wiggings has 30 years experience in the maritime sector, from deck cadet, through deck officer to container terminal operations, management, design, construction and development, then on to central operations management within a global ship owning and operating company and now owning and running a company supplying operational expertise to owners and operators of container - [Monika Kruesmann](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/monika-kruesmann/) - Monika is a Research Consultant at ResPublica, with special interest in the New Economies, Innovative Markets; and Models and Partnerships for Social Prosperity workstreams. In the finishing stages of her PhD at the London School of Economics, Monika came to Britain from Australia, where she worked for almost ten years in a series of policy - [Mike Hoffman](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/mike-hoffman/) - Mike is a graduate of Rutgers University, with a BA in Political Science, minoring in National Security and Religious Studies. He is currently in the process of completing an MA of International Peace and Security within the King’s College London War Studies Department, with a particular interest in International Conflict Law and International Human Rights - [Michael Merrick](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/michael-merrick/) - [Michelle Highman](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/michelle-highman/) - Michelle Highman is the Chief Executive of The Money Charity, the UK’s financial capability charity. 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Until recently he worked for the Church of England's Parliamentary Unit, where he supported the Lords Spiritual in the House of Lords as part of the team at Church House. Matthew has written - [Martin Shaw](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/martin-shaw/) - Martin Shaw is the Chief Executive of the Association of Financial Mutuals, a position he has held since its launch in January 2010. Martin works with the AFM Board to determine the strategic direction and priorities of AFM and directs the work of the Association towards those aims. Previously Martin was General Secretary of the - [Martin Ian](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/martin-ian/) - [Mark Walton](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/mark-walton/) - I am the co founder and executive Director of Shared Assets Ltd and a 2012 Clore Social Fellow. I have 10 years experience of working in the community sector specialising in issues of environment and community development. 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The Group operates 4,800 retail trading - [Katharine Quarmby](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/katharine-quarmby/) - Katharine Quarmby is a writer, journalist and film-maker specialising in social affairs, education, foreign affairs and politics, with an investigative and campaigning edge. - [Kate Swade](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/kate-swade/) - Kate Swade is a Clore Social Fellow and development manager at Shared Assets, working towards the creation of a 21st century commons by supporting increased community use and management of the natural environment. She has experience helping community groups and neighbourhood organisations across the country develop land and building projects. Previously, she ran the consultancy - [Julia Groves](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/julia-groves/) - Julia Groves is Chair of the UK Crowdfunding Association and Managing Director of Trillion Fund, a crowdfunding for renewable energy platform. - [John Tizard](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/john-tizard/) - John Tizard is an independent strategic advisor and commentator on public policy and public service practice. In 2007 he founded ‘The Centre for Public Service Partnerships’, of which he was director until 2011. The defining feature of which is an emphasis on values- fairness, equal opportunity, quality of services- based on accountability and transparency. Before - [Jolena Flett](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/jolena-flett/) - Jolena is the Advocacy and Advice Manager of the Belfast Migrant Centre, tackling the barriers faced by migrant workers in Northern Ireland and providing them with free advice and assistance. The Belfast Migrant Centre is a consortium of UNISON, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, the Polish Association (NI) and the Northern Ireland Council for - [John Robertson MP](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/john-robertson-mp/) - John Robertson has been a member of parliament for Glasgow North West since 2000. Through his work on the Energy and Climate Change committee, John has campaigned against rising energy bills and excessive Big Six profits. John is also Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Nuclear Energy, as well as of the Communications, Shipbuilding - [John Gathergood](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/john-gathergood/) - Professor John Gathergood is an Associate Professor in Economics at the University of Nottingham. John joined the University of Nottingham as a Lecturer in Economics in 2010 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2013. His research focuses on household behaviour in financial markets and the impact of wealth shocks on consumption, labour supply and - [John Downie](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/john-downie/) - John leads the public affairs department of the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO), including the policy and research team and the communications and campaigns team. He has lead responsibility for SCVO’s internal and external communications and engagement with politicians. John also chairs the board of one of Scotland’s leading social enterprises – Impact Arts - [Jitka Markova](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/jitka-markova/) - Jitka is Director of the charity The Arbour, an organisation which provides leisure and educational activity for women, young people and other members of the local community of Tower Hamlets, London. Originally from the Czech Republic, Jitka has been an active participant in the voluntary sector for over thirteen years, working both in the UK - [James Lloyd](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/james-lloyd/) - James works for the National Trust in their external affairs team; advising on Energy and Environment. James used to be an adviser to the Liberal Democrats, responsible for their energy, environment and rural affairs policy. - [Jane Burston](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/jane-burston/) - Jane Burston, Head of the Centre for Carbon Management, National Physical Laboratory. Jane is responsible for managing the work of 120 scientists on climate science, emissions monitoring and low carbon technologies. Jane is a Trustee of the campaigning NGO Sandbag, a board member of the Natural Environment Research Council’s Doctoral Training Programme across five London - [James Watkins](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/james-watkins/) - James Watkins is an economic development specialist based in the City of London. He is also the Geopolitics and Public Affairs Lecturer for the French business school, INSEEC. He was the Political Adviser to the Japanese Government based at the Embassy of Japan in London and he has also supported a number of Parliamentarians. He - [Iain Hasdell](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/iain-hasdell/) - Iain is the Chief Executive of the Employee Ownership Association – the leading body in the UK for businesses, whether of private sector or public service origin – that are owned by their employees. The EOA represents employee owned businesses that contribute over £30bn to UK GDP each year. Immediately prior to joining the EOA - [Heather Keates](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/heather-keates/) - [Guy Opperman MP](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/guy-opperman-mp/) - Guy has been the MP for Hexham since 2010 after 15 years as a barrister, prosecuting 9 murder trials and many other cases. He ran a groundbreaking pro bono legal charity for 7 years and was named Lawyer of the Year in 2007. Throughout all of this he also ran a family engineering business on - [Graham Allen MP](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/graham-allen-mp/) - Graham has been the MP for Nottigham North since 1987 and is Chair of the Political and Constitutional Reform Committee. He is the author of Reinventing Democracy (1995), The Last Prime Minister (2001), Early Intervention (2008) - written with Iain Duncan-Smith. - [Gerald Templer](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/gerald-templer/) - Gerald Templer is an analyst at Candesic. - [Graeme Nuttall](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/graeme-nuttall/) - Graeme Nuttall heads the Mutual and Employee Ownership team at the international law firm Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP. He has a particular interest in employee ownership and public service mutualisation. As the Government’s independent adviser on employee ownership, he produced “Sharing Success: The Nuttall Review of Employee Ownership” which has set the agenda for growing - [Gaynor Hartnell](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/gaynor-hartnell/) - Gaynor Hartnell is a freelance consultant specialising in renewable energy. 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He was commended for his forward thinking work at Bristol developing tools for biological imaging. - [Dr. Tim Madge](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/dr-tim-madge/) - Dr Tim Madge is an author, historian and journalist. He studied politics, international relations and history at Southampton University at undergraduate level, subsequently working for an M.Phil on the relationship between psychoanalysis and political thought. His doctoral thesis was on consensus theory applied to post-war broadcasting policy in the UK. He is a former visiting - [Dr Ruth Yeoman MBA](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/dr-ruth-yeoman-mba/) - Ruth Yeoman manages the research and education services of the Centre for Mutual and Employee-owned Business at the University of Oxford. She advises public and private sector organisations on the governance, organisational change and effectiveness of mutuals. Her PhD thesis was on 'Meaningful Work and Workplace Democracy. - [Dr Tim Johnson](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/dr-tim-johnson/) - Dr Tim Johnson is a lecturer in the Department for Actuarial Mathematics and Statistics at Heriot-Watt University, one of the country's leading centres of research into the mathematics of finance. Between 2006 and 2011 he was the RCUK Academic Fellow in Financial Mathematics and before embarking on a PhD in Applied Probability he worked in - [Dr Michelle Tempest](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/dr-michelle-tempest/) - Dr Michelle Tempest is a Senior Advisor at Candesic and a practising hospital psychiatrist and therapist. - [Dr Jonathan A.J. Wilson](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/dr-jonathan-j-wilson/) - Dr Jonathan A.J. Wilson is an Associate Member of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Islamic Finance & Diversity in Financial Markets. Dr Jonathan A.J. 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They know first-hand how important it is to try to ensure that our parents are happy, contented and as healthy as possible. Sometimes, they help their mums with little everyday tasks, such - [Dr Andres Fonseca](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/dr-andres-fonseca/) - Dr Andres Fonseca is a consultant psychiatrist and tech entrepreneur. He is CEO of Virtually Free a company that develops virtual therapy applications using games to help people free themselves of anything that troubles their mind. He trained in London as a psychiatrist and he is the ex-medical director of a national independent mental healthcare - [David Orr](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/david-orr/) - David Orr is Chief Executive of the National Housing Federation and a former President of CECODHAS-Housing Europe, the European Liaison Committee for Social Housing. He has chaired the mobility taskforce which recently reported on how to increase social housing mobility. He has recently been appointed as the new Chair of the board of Homeless International. - [David Clarke](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/david-clarke/) - David is a Policy Officer at ShareAction a charity which encourages responsible investment by pension funds and asset managers. He leads ShareAction’s engagement with policymakers and supports the All Party Parliamentary Group on Responsible Investment. David holds a BA in Politics from the University of York @shareactionuk. - [Dan Boucher](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/dan-boucher/) - Dan Boucher works in public affairs line managing a team engaging with Westminster, the Northern Ireland Assembly Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly and European Parliament. He was the Welsh Conservative candidate in Swansea East during the 2011 Assembly election, moving from fourth to second place. He has a PhD in international relations, is married to Emma - [Crispin Truman](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/crispin-truman/) - Crispin Truman is chief executive of the Churches Conservation Trust, the national charity protecting historic churches at risk. The Trust runs over 340 heritage buildings across England attracting almost 2m visitors a year and promotes them as an educational, tourism and community resource. Crispin is a trustee of Heritage Alliance and chairs the national Heritage - [Clive Betts MP](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/clive-betts-mp/) - Clive Betts MP began his political career in 1973 and in 1976 was elected as a member of Sheffield City Council. He became Leader of the Council in 1987, having served on the Housing and Finance committees for several years. He remained on the Council until his election as Labour Member of Parliament for Sheffield - [Christine Whitehead](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/christine-whitehead/) - Christine Whitehead, Professor of Housing Economics, London School of Economics Christine is an internationally respected applied economist working mainly in the fields of housing economics, finance and policy. She has worked with a wide range of international agencies as well as regularly for the UK government and Parliament. She was Director of the Cambridge Centre - [Catherine Dempsey](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/catherine-dempsey/) - Catherine Dempsey is a PhD candidate at King's College London, Department of War Studies. She is currently researching innovative uses of technology in community-led conflict prevention. She previously worked on the PAX initiative, a research project on social media and conflict prevention. - [Carl Packman](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/carl-packman/) - Carl Packman is an author and researcher in sub-prime finance and social exclusion. His second book, Payday Lending: Global Growth of the High Cost Credit Market, was published September 2014 by Palgrave Macmillan. - [Canon Dr Angus Ritchie](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/canon-dr-angus-ritchie/) - Canon Dr Angus Ritchie is Director of the Contextual Theology Centre at the Royal Foundation of St Katharine, East London. For fourteen years, he has ministered in East London, and has been an active congregational leader in London Citizens. He is now Assistant Priest at St Peter's Anglican Church, Bethnal Green and an Assistant Chaplain - [Boris Worrall](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/boris-worrall/) - Boris is Executive Director of Futures at Orbit, a leading housing association managing 38,000 homes across the Midlands, East and South East. Boris is responsible for business planning, performance, strategic sustainability & community investment, research & intelligence, communication, public affairs and branding. He previously worked within the Home Office after a career in journalism. Boris - [Benita Matofska](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/benita-matofska/) - Benita Matofska is a worldwide expert and public speaker on the Sharing Economy, the Founder and Chief Sharer of Compare and Share and The People Who Share and a former BBC executive. - [Andy Heald](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/andy-heald/) - Andy Heald co-founded 'Generation Community', a low carbon cooperative. He started his career with 'The Times Mirror Centre for the People and Press' in Washington D.C., before embarking on thirteen years as a Wealth Manager in the City of London. He holds a Master's of Science from City University, London, in Energy, Environmental Technology and - [Andy Wightman](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/andy-wightman/) - Andy Wightman (@andywightman) is a freelance writer, researcher and analyst specialising in land reform, land tenure, land rights and landownership and is a leading advocate of land reform in Scotland. He is the author of numerous publications including Who Owns Scotland (1996), Scotland: Land and Power (1999),Community Land Rights. A Citizen’s Guide (2009) and The - [Alex Ingram](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/alex-ingram/) - Alex Ingram set up Myageingparent.com with Deborah Stone. Both of them lost their fathers some years ago and have a single parent living. They know first-hand how important it is to try to ensure that our parents are happy, contented and as healthy as possible. Sometimes, they help their mums with little everyday tasks, such - [Alexandra Gardiner](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/contributors/alexandra-gardiner/) - Alex has worked at New Economy, Greater Manchester’s strategy, policy and research organization, for three years and is currently the strategy lead for the organization. This includes looking at areas such as devolution and innovative ways to deliver economic growth to the conurbation. She previously has worked in strategy and policy roles, with a special ## The Disraeli Room - [Devolution Cannot Wait](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2025/10/01/devolution-cannot-wait/) - At this week’s Labour Party Conference, a packed fringe event hosted by ResPublica, and sponsored by Key Cities, brought together senior voices from central and local government to debate the future of devolution. The message from the panel was blunt: Britain is still one of the most centralised countries in the Western world, and unless - [COVID-19: Are we truly free or merely enslaved to ourselves?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2020/04/07/covid-19-are-we-truly-free-or-merely-enslaved-to-ourselves/) - ‘Through discipline comes freedom’. Over two thousand years ago Aristotle warned that freedom means more than just “doing as one likes”. Ancient Greek societies survived plagues, though the hardship they endured tested all constitutions and often caused a breakdown in traditional values. The present COVID 19 pandemic has reminded liberal societies about the extent and - [Airtight on Asbestos - A campaign to save our future](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2019/11/25/airtight-on-asbestos/) - On the 24th of November 1999, the United Kingdom banned the use of asbestos. Twenty years later and this toxic mineral still plagues public health, being linked to multiple diseases including mesothelioma. But why has asbestos remained such a threat to public health, despite laws which prevent its use? The answer is two-fold. - [Rationality & Regionality: A more effective way to dealing with climate change | by Hamza King](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2019/09/20/rationality-regionality-a-more-effective-way-to-dealing-with-climate-change/) - Liberalism relies heavily on certain assumptions about the human condition, particularly, about our ability to act rationally. John Rawls defines a rational person as one who can identify and prioritise from the options available, then follow a ‘plan which will satisfy more of his desires rather than less’. Both him and John Stuart Mill argue - [What are the Implications of proroguing Parliament?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2019/08/28/what-are-the-implications-of-proroguing-parliament/) - During his campaign, Boris Johnson made it very clear that when it comes to proroguing Parliament, he is “not going to take anything off the table”. Today [n.b. 28th August 2019] it appears that the PM is moving forth with that line of thought, in an effort to curtail efforts from Parliament to block a - [ResPublica's submission to CMA](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2019/08/02/respublicas-submission-to-cma/) - Download the full text of the submission On 3rd July 2019, the CMA launched a market study into online platforms and the digital advertising market in the UK. CMA wanted to assess three broad potential sources of harm to consumers in connection with the market for digital advertising: to what extent online platforms have market - [Productive Places | WSP and ResPublica](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2018/11/08/productive-places/) - On Wednesday 31st October ResPublica and WSP hosted a panel discussion in Parliament to launch WSP’s Productive Places paper and debate its findings. The report outlines how places that are designed and delivered with Space, Health, Accessibility, Resilience and Engagement (WSP’s SHARE approach) in mind can boost UK’s productivity. Building on the Industrial Strategy at - [ResPublica's Response to the Autumn Budget 2018](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2018/10/29/respublicas-response-to-the-autumn-budget-2018/) - The 2018 Budget delivered by Philip Hammond was the first since 1962 to be delivered on a day other than a Wednesday, and was moved forward from an expected November date to avoid a clash with the final month of Brexit negotiations in November. Below is our response in relation to some of our key policy - [ResPublica's Response to the Autumn Budget 2017](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2017/11/22/respublicas-response-autumn-budget-2017/) - The second Budget of 2017 delivered by Philip Hammond following the abolition of the Autumn Statement, was widely trailed as a tight political tightrope for the Chancellor due to worsening growth forecasts and tensions within The Cabinet. Below is our overall response from Director Phillip Blond in addition to analysis on what this Budget means - [ResPublica Response to changes to the National Planning Policy Framework](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2018/03/20/respublica-response-changes-national-planning-policy-framework/) - The Government’s housing announcements on the 5th March were the first substantial change to the planning system since the Coalition reforms six years ago. The changes aim to respond to many criticisms of planning policy that have been made over the past few years. Much has changed in housing over that time, with devolution deals - [Food poverty: Time to lift the veil?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2018/02/14/food-poverty-time-lift-veil/) - A century on from Charles Booth’s famous Poverty Map of London, accurate information on poverty has never been more important. So the findings of a new study that 1 in 4 parents are skipping meals because they don’t have enough money shows we need to take a much closer look at a new form of - [ResPublica's Response to the Industrial Strategy White Paper](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2017/11/28/respublicas-response-industrial-strategy-white-paper/) - Following the creation of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy in July 2016 and firing the starting gun for a string of sector deals, on the 27th November the Government set forth its vision for enhancing UK global competitiveness. The hotly-anticipated White Paper, running to 255 pages underlines the scale and severity of the - [Child Protection in the Digital Age](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2017/07/13/child-protection-digital-age/) - I was delighted when the Government introduced its Digital Economy Bill in the last session which gave effect to the 2015 General Election manifesto commitment to introduce age verification checks on pornographic websites. When introducing the Bill, the Government made it clear that they were committed to the principle that what is illegal offline is - [A stake in it for everyone; why Conservatives should support regulation of Fixed Odds Betting Terminals](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2017/05/15/stake-everyone-conservatives-support-regulation-fixed-odds-betting-terminals/) - FOBTs or B2 machines are highly addictive, one way we know this, according to research conducted by the Campaign for Fairer Gambling, is that FOBT users are much more likely to be ‘problem gamblers’, statistics from the gambling helpline showed that in one year (2011/2012) 28% of calls to the helpline were from gamblers who - [Championing renewed leadership in governance and business practice](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2017/03/07/championing-renewed-leadership-governance-business-practice/) - It didn’t get to the point where we saw ‘Save Unilever’ held aloft on placards outside Downing Street, yet there was widespread unease about Kraft’s now abandoned takeover of UK-Dutch consumer goods giant Unilever. Clearly many people still have misgivings about Kraft given its previous track record with another British favourite Cadbury’s. However, there may - [Industrial Strategy: A positive start but more must be done](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2017/01/26/industrial-strategy-positive-start-must-done/) - The Government revealed their industrial strategy this week, with three main aims: Build on our strengths and extend excellence into the future; Close the gap between the UK’s most productive companies, industries, places and people and the rest; and Make the UK one of the most competitive places in the world to start or grow - [Who can give the modern Cathy a home?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2016/08/02/will-can-give-modern-cathy-home/) - It’s 50 years since Ken Loach’s groundbreaking film, Cathy Come Home, documented the inhuman effects of homelessness. Without a home, as his heartbreaking film shows, families collapse, children are deprived of a stable childhood in which to thrive and individuals - Cathy herself - are put under intolerable mental and emotional strain with tragic and - [We need a manufacturing resurgence more than ever. How can we bring it about?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2016/06/28/need-manufacturing-resurgence-ever-can-bring/) - There’s been a familiar narrative emerging since Thursday’s vote - this was the left behind white working class getting one over the London-centric political and economic elites. I think that analysis only takes us so far as it glosses over diversity within the Leave vote. Indeed, what divided Remain and Leave voters was not class - [The economic impacts of a Brexit would make us more, not less, reliant on other countries](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2016/06/21/economic-impacts-brexit-make-us-not-less-reliant-countries/) - Yesterday’s letter from Ford to its employees was the latest chapter in the economic debate on Britain’s EU membership, which has largely focused on the impact of Brexit on the UK’s big manufacturers. But it’s services exports that we should be worried about if we vote to Leave on Thursday. Brexit could increase, not reduce, - [Mutuals and Co-ops Can Be The Very Best Option!](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2016/05/16/mutuals-co-ops-can-best-option/) - The Quest for John Lewis Quality Public Services for Wales Wales has often been characterised by a radical political tradition that exists to promote a vision of educated, articulate, empowered local communities that act on their own behalf rather than having others acting for them. This is central to the idea that in many ways - [Book Review: 'Taking Power Back: Putting people in charge of politics' by Simon Parker](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2016/05/10/book-review-taking-power-back-putting-people-charge-politics-simon-parker/) - Nearly a year before the 2015 General Election, the Chancellor George Osborne announced that the country needed a ‘Northern Powerhouse’: an attempt to bring together the North’s 15 million strong population into a collective force that could begin to rival London and the South East as the economic heartbeat of the UK. It followed the - [Remain: The truly patriotic choice](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2016/05/05/remain-truly-patriotic-choice/) - In its latest volley of relentless negativity, the Remain campaign has targeted the grim outlook for UK trade were we to leave the EU. Last week its aim was fixed on the 3 million jobs dependent on the union. The statistics change but the message remains: leave at your peril. Remain have abandoned even lip - [Becoming ‘the best place in the world’ for dementia treatment](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2016/04/26/becoming-best-place-world-dementia-treatment/) - This blog was originally published by Age UK The Prime Minister wants the UK to be ‘the best place in the world to undertake research into dementia and other neurodegenerative diseases.’ The UK has indeed taken a leading role in initiatives among the G7 countries and the World Health Organisation, and the amount of money going - [Beyond the Economic: The true value of Europe](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2016/03/23/beyond-economic-true-value-europe/) - Arguments against Britain leaving the EU have focused on economic cost-benefit-analyses and arguments from national self-interest. This does a disservice to an organisation which, with its rare idealism, should be valued beyond a banal calculation of whether we get out more than we put in. The EU is an experiment in supranational collaboration of unequalled - [With Prevention in Mind](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2016/02/19/with-prevention-in-mind/) - Announcing £1 billion increase in funding to mental health, David Cameron rightly said that there needs to be a ‘revolution’ in mental health care. Much of the money the Prime Minister is pledging is to flow into acute mental health services; £250 million for emergency mental health in A&E and £400 million for investment in - [NHS2](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2016/02/11/4500/) - The NHS began with a bitter doctor’s dispute. Nye Bevan, the towering socialist Welsh force of nature, and Minister of Health whose single – some would say bloody – mindedness in pushing through the root law that set up the world’s first fully funded public healthcare system, in 1948, was a hate figure for most - [Comprehensive Spending Review: What does it mean for devolution?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/12/07/comprehensive-spending-review-mean-devolution/) - The devolution proposals within the Comprehensive Spending Review have been labelled by some as a recipe for increased regional inequality. The limited and growth-focussed nature of the powers devolved in the CSR make these a legitimate concern, so long as city and county devolution does not make available the powers needed to achieve true place-based - [Child protection & the hidden dangers of the Immigration Bill](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2016/01/11/child-protection-hidden-dangers-immigration-bill/) - The UK’s immigration rules and systems affect some children and young people in almost every aspect of their lives. Their immigration status can determine whether they have enough food to eat and a safe place to stay, whether they have access to the healthcare and services they need, and if they can continue in education - [Why is access to specialist mental health support denied to so many teenagers?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/12/10/access-specialist-mental-health-support-denied-many-teenagers/) - Our recent report at The Children’s Society’s, Access Denied: a teenager’s pathway through the mental health system, shows that last year out of 200,000 teenagers referred to specialist mental health services around 30,000 were turned away without any offer of support. In this blog, I will be exploring our key findings showing why more needs - [‘Religion shows no sign of going away or allowing itself to be relegated to the private sphere’](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/12/07/religion-shows-no-sign-going-away-allowing-relegated-private-sphere/) - The National Theatre has just revived Harley Granville Barker’s play, Waste, about public and private morality in politics. The action turns on a Bill to disestablish the Church of England and divert the church’s assets to educational purposes. Set around 1930, the key plot themes are timeless – political chicanery, the relation between idealism and - [The Multiple Costs of Food Waste](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/12/01/multiple-costs-food-waste/) - Food insecurity is a global tragedy. More than 10% of humanity, almost 800 million people, are undernourished. Even in a relatively high-income country like the UK, almost 25% of the population is at risk of poverty or social exclusion and over a million people have been helped by Trussel Trust food banks. And yet, food - [Climate science is to geo-engineering as genetics is to GM food](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/11/30/climate-science-geo-engineering-genetics-gm-food/) - Advocates of GM lean heavily on the claim that GM is 'science'. But this is itself a highly dubious assumption. GM is essentially a technology. It is more like engineering than science. And of course this is actually tacitly acknowledged in the very concept/framing of 'genetic engineering'. Now, I have of course nothing against engineering per - [Think Food and Fuel!](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/11/27/think-food-fuel/) - We tend to argue at length about issues we encounter every day, whilst we make quick decisions about far-reaching issues of which we have limited understanding, such as climate change, or food security. Whilst eating and drinking keeps body and soul united,we become deeply emotional when it comes to food,. We welcome genetically modified organisms - [Delivering sustainable food security with a pick axe, a two-way torch and a mirror](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/11/26/delivering-sustainable-food-security-pick-axe-two-way-torch-mirror/) - Food products criss-cross around the world every day, carrying with them embedded water, carbon, energy and sweat (figuratively if not literally, in the effort put in by farmers, growers and manufacturers to bring the product to market). What isn’t embedded in our food markets though, is fairness and long-term thinking. Our food systems comprise long - [For food, read energy](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/11/25/food-read-energy/) - The issues surrounding energy are now well understood. We have growing needs yet realise that our historical energy sources are not as cheap – or abundant – as first appeared. This has lead to a re-pricing of energy and the development of new technologies, including for energy preservation and storage. Facilitated by such technologies, more - [Retailers’ Promotions on Sugary Products: Should they be regulated?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/11/24/retailers-promotions-sugary-products-regulated/) - A poor diet fostered by a rapid increase in the supply of affordable, processed food has been widely blamed as one of the major contributors to obesity. Associated to increases in affordability are the promotions used by retailers with such foods. Their impact is controversial because, on the one hand, retail promotions (price promotions, vouchers, - [Is the food industry always the villain on childhood obesity?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/11/23/food-industry-always-villain-childhood-obesity/) - Sugar is the new tobacco, and the battle lines are sharpening around Jamie Oliver’s campaign for a sugar tax to be the centrepiece of the Government’s Childhood Obesity Strategy, due out in the New Year. It’s a no-brainer: the average can of fizzy drink contains nine teaspoons of sugar, two teaspoons more than the new - [Food for Thought](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/11/22/4312/) - Food is a vital part of human well-being and flourishing. Over the course of the next week ResPublica will be running a blog week on establishing good food practices for all in society. Food is far more than just what is needed for sustenance; the food and groceries market raises important political and ethical questions - [Why ResPublica supports the Direct Planning Bill](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/11/20/respublica-supports-direct-planning-bill/) - With the Direct Planning (Pilot) Bill set for its Second Reading in the House of Lords tomorrow, ResPublica are keen to nail our organisational colours to the mast. We strongly support this Bill: its provisions, its aims, and its underlying philosophy. Our July 2015 report, A Community Right to Beauty: Giving communities the power - [The Direct Planning (Pilot) Bill – Changing the Question](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/11/20/direct-planning-pilot-bill-changing-question/) - The Direct Planning (Pilot) Bill has its second reading in the House of Lords today (20th November). It has been introduced by Lord Lexden though is strictly non-partisan in nature. Create Streets has been heavily involved in its drafting and it builds on the logic of our community work and research as well as on - [Filling empty homes: the key to flourishing communities?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/11/16/filling-empty-homes-the-key-to-flourishing-communities/) - Common in much discussion on the housing crisis is the focus on the need for a range of solutions. From building on the green belt, to stopping foreign investors and ‘buy to leave’; from unlocking brownfield land for development and leaving the green belt out of it, to bringing all empty homes back into occupancy. - [Keeping Sunday Special and the Politics of Rest](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/11/05/keeping-sunday-special-and-the-politics-of-rest/) - The human need for regular rest is an inconvenient truth for capitalism. It would be easier if we could simplify the world into a liberal paradigm, allowing rational agents and perfect markets to efficiently distribute our natural resources, our relationships, and even our sleep. This is indeed what the economic liberal consensus of the last - [Income for Me, Wealth for We: A Path to Economic Justice](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/10/29/income-for-me-wealth-for-we-a-path-to-economic-justice/) - In a soundbite ridden speech at the Conservative party conference, David Cameron promised an “assault on poverty”. But he said absolutely nothing about what could be done to back up that claim. Where is the substance, where is the commitment, where is the strategy that will reduce poverty? He did say he would seek to - [Beyond Rights: A Matter of Life and Death?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/10/14/beyond-rights-a-matter-of-life-and-death/) - Much of the debate over the recently-defeated assisted suicide bill was couched in terms of one’s rights. While not necessarily intended by the authors of the bill, the media frequently referred to it as the ‘right to die’ bill. Using this terminology is far from helpful in discussing assisted suicide. Human rights are important when - [The Statistical Solution to all our Big Problems](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/10/08/the-statistical-solution-to-all-our-big-problems/) - The United Kingdom has been in the grip of a housing crisis for more than a decade due to the rate of houses constructed being unable to keep up with demand. That demand consists of affordable homes for working families to purchase, and social housing for local authorities to own to provide to shelter some - [Foolishness to Greeks: A reflection on the recent attempt to change the law on Assisted Dying](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/09/14/foolishness-to-greeks-a-reflection-on-the-recent-attempt-to-change-the-law-on-assisted-dying/) - The defeat of the Marris Bill at its second reading last Friday in the House of Commons was of immense significance. Through the heart of this debate ran themes which are shaping wider public policy in our nation. Whilst it was wholly right to approach this debate with prayer, humility and compassion for those who - [Illiberal and Illegitimate? A response to the Marris Bill](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/09/08/illiberal-and-illegitimate-a-response-to-the-marris-bill/) - On September 11 MPs will have the opportunity to settle for this Parliament the question of whether the terminally ill should have assistance with suicide, provided certain conditions are met. Far from a widespread popular movement, the history of assisted suicide campaigns in the UK is one of almost total failure, extending back over eighty - [Reforming the Lords: Could the best step forward be to take a step back?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/09/01/reforming-the-lords-could-the-best-step-forward-be-to-take-a-step-back/) - The Government’s most recent look at reforming the House of Lords has focused on creating an elected second chamber, but such a course might well cause as many problems as it solves. Recent history is littered with other attempts at solving the problem of the Lords, most significantly by Blair who attempted to create an - [Does reputation matter in financial services?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/08/25/does-reputation-matter-in-financial-services/) - To date, reputation has not been a significant factor influencing consumer behaviour in financial services. In other words, despite the real growth of fines and stream of bad press, consumers aren’t voting with their feet, and reputation has not significantly impacted the bottom line of leading financial organisations. This isn’t much of a surprise. Consumers - [A Spotlight on Homelessness](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/08/21/a-spotlight-on-homelessness/) - Perhaps the headline figure of my postgraduate research at Richmond University in London, is 51% of Londoners do not help the homeless on the streets or through a charity. This is somewhat understandable given those who wish to live and work in the capital might feel they have their own financial hurdles. But addressing homelessness - [Beauty and influence in the new local paradigm](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/08/19/beauty-and-influence-in-the-new-local-paradigm/) - It is brave to speak of beauty. It is doubly brave to do so in a public policy context, where there is suspicion of abstract notions, and where austerity can push aside almost all impulses other than immediate utility. The emergence of a new paradigm of a permanently smaller public budget that makes the discussion - [Investing with an Ethical Sense](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/08/11/investing-with-an-ethical-sense/) - During the last few years, we have seen an unprecedented number of scandals involving the most prominent institutions, across the World and all the industrial sectors. These scandals have contributed to global crises affecting millions. It is clear that some businesses have opted for a model that puts profit above everything else, no matter what - [Reflections on the Magna Carta: A constitutional angle on seeking the common good](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/07/24/reflections-on-the-magna-carta-a-constitutional-angle-on-seeking-the-common-good/) - The recent anniversary of the sealing of Magna Carta provides a helpful space in which to pause and take stock of the popular legitimacy of our political structures and institutions. As many have pointed out, the retrospective writing of history is evident in the Magna Carta’s mythic status. As Theos’ Nick Spencer memorably put it - [Can the BBC survive after 2022?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/07/16/can-the-bbc-survive-after-2022/) - Woes, like a biblical plague: the BBC’s continue to multiply. The image is not inapposite; Reith would have approved. Hard on the appointment of John Whittingdale, as culture secretary, not a Corporation supporter, comes news that the BBC will not get the exclusive rights to covering the Olympic Games, after 2022. And that follows the - [Summer Budget 2015: Unpacking the National Living Wage](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/07/09/summer-budget-2015-unpacking-the-national-living-wage/) - Yesterday’s budget speech was notable for a number of reasons — not least that it was the first Tory budget for 19 years. Content wise, there were key announcements on welfare, apprenticeships, housing, and devolution. But it was the Chancellor’s plan for a National Living Wage that has dominated the headlines so far. The National - [Enabling rural communities to thrive: Powering the rural economy](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/07/06/enabling-rural-communities-to-thrive-powering-the-rural-economy/) - Britain, along with much of the rest of the world, is facing the infamous energy “trilemma” of rising energy costs, climate change and strains on security of supply. With about 20% of our population living in rural areas, it’s vital that we find clean, sustainable ways to address this trilemma within the rural economy. Small - [The revival of professional integrity](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/07/02/the-revival-of-professional-integrity/) - In the late 1990s, Solomon commented: ‘”Integrity” is a word like “honor” – its close kin – that sometimes seems all but archaic in the modern business world’ (Solomon, 1997, p. 215). Insofar as many of the values and practices of the business world were increasingly prevalent in the public and voluntary sector at - [Are the Virtues Universal?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/06/30/are-the-virtues-universal/) - In a collection of notes apparently recorded by his son Nichomachus, Aristotle reportedly maintained that the human good consists of virtuous activity. We flourish through virtue and are better off living a virtuous life. But what constitutes virtue? And is it the same for all people everywhere? Or do virtues like honesty, for example, mean - [Virtue Ethics Renewed: Morality in a post religious, post relativist secular age](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/06/26/the-value-of-virtue/) - Top down morality is out, hierarchies of traditionally respected authority are done. Our institutions, in particular those that wield political power are typically viewed with serious mistrust. The maxim that: ‘Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men’, has found its fulfilment, certainly in the perceptions of the British public. - [Does private tuition exacerbate educational inequality?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/06/02/does-private-tuition-exacerbate-educational-inequality/) - The drivers of educational attainment are complex. On the one hand, a child’s lot in life can be dramatically improved when they are exposed to excellent school teaching. For example, pupils from poorer backgrounds in Britain have been shown to gain 1.5 years’ worth of learning in a single year when taught by very effective - [Vocational Banking: How can we restore trust and confidence in financial services?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/05/29/vocational-banking-how-can-we-restore-trust-and-confidence-in-financial-services/) - It’s commonly held that business ethics begin where the law ends. But as we argued in our Virtuous Banking report last year, ordinary people are far from convinced that this applies to banking. So how can we restore trust and confidence in the industry? It was this question that speakers addressed during our breakfast session co-hosted by - [Crafting Policies for Success: Support for sole traders and small businesses](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/05/27/crafting-policies-for-success-support-for-sole-traders-and-small-businesses/) - “A decline in tool use would seem to betoken a shift in our relationship to our own stuff: more passive and more dependent. And indeed, there are fewer occasions for the kind of spiritedness that is called forth when we take things in hand for ourselves, whether to fix them or to make them. What - [A tale from a maker](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/05/29/a-tale-from-a-maker-2/) - During my post-graduate study at the RCA in 2001 I really made some choices about which career path to take creatively. I wanted to be a studio-based artist working to commission and exhibiting. However, I had no idea as to whether this would work out. All I knew was that I needed to produce good - [A tale from a maker](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/05/29/a-tale-from-a-maker/) - I’m an artist and designer, based in Bristol. I’ve been working for myself for 12 years and have grown from a sole trader to a VAT registered limited company, and have recently become an employer. Day to day, I work on projects as diverse as designing individual bespoke manhole covers for a town centre, and - [Craft, Luxury & Value](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/05/28/craft-luxury-value/) - As Head of Exhibitions and Collections for the Crafts Council, museum objects and public programmes are my business. Exhibitions are a unique platform for public engagement with critical themes, profiling makers work, and creating an enjoyable, stimulating and learning experience. The Crafts Council uses its programme to profile the work of makers, the way in - [Self-Employment in the European Union](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/05/22/self-employment-in-the-european-union/) - The UK is not alone in it’s citizens aspiring to secure their futures, and finances, through self-employment and entrepreneurship. Here in Poland, and across the European Union, individuals want to work for themselves, increasingly need to create their own work and are searching out ways of circumventing the shrinking labour markets and constructing their own - [The skills combination that can unlock economic growth and prosperity](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/05/26/the-skills-combination-that-can-unlock-economic-growth-and-prosperity/) - Create UK articulates a plan for strategic action. The industrial strategy, developed by the Creative Industries Council and published in July 2014, reads as an essential ‘To Do’ list for industry and Government in order to maintain the industries’ remarkable growth within the competitive global landscape. It celebrates but also warns that there are some - [Our Future is in the Making: Educating and training craft](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/05/26/our-future-is-in-the-making-educating-and-training-craft/) - The huge talents of craft makers are incredibly inspiring, as we will see reflected in this week’s series of blogs from makers Rebecca Gouldson and Rosalind Wyatt, from the e-commerce platform Folksy and from the Crafts Council and Creative Skillset. Yet there’s a growing clamour of protest about the state of learning for the next - [The True Meaning of Work: Lessons from Italy](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/05/22/the-true-meaning-of-work-lessons-from-italy/) - I was sitting in a vibrant Milanese coffee shop a few months ago with three Italian university students – they were sparky, enthusiastic, effective communicators and they had a really good business idea (a music based product – very clever). They were intelligent and persuasive but were bogged down in the detail of a business - [Work & Economic Independence: A practical view](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/05/20/work-economic-independence-a-practical-view/) - Perhaps for too long economic independence has seemed a distant, intangible concept far removed from the everyday lives of most of the population. Yet to achieve economic independence on an individual, community, regional and national scale is one of the key graduations of life: the daughter or son who moves from economic dependency on - [The True Meaning of Work: A View from Impact Hub Birmingham](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/05/19/the-true-meaning-of-work-a-view-from-impact-hub-birmingham/) - The true meaning of work, for many, is no longer about employment and career progression – aspirations have moved on from six figure salaries and rising to the top. More and more people are vocal about their desire to work for purpose driven organisations and in places where they can have a positive impact on - [Barcelona Activa: One City’s Approach To Fostering Economic Independence](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/05/18/barcelona-activa-one-citys-approach-to-fostering-economic-independence/) - A practical, people-centred and grassroots approach to economic growth in a city, and region, should focus on opening up pathways for the local population. There are two elements to this. Initially it should support people to identify the needs and opportunities of their communities and areas. Then it should equip people with the skills and - [Placing the UK at the heart of the fintech revolution](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/05/13/placing-the-uk-at-the-heart-of-the-fintech-revolution/) - In the Budget the Chancellor announced that the Government intended to “deliver an open API standard in UK banking”. For politicians and economists dissecting the 125 page report, this sentence probably didn’t stand out a great deal. But for those of working in the fintech space, these were potentially the most significant 8 words amongst - [The answer to our energy problems? The “off the grid economy”](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/05/04/the-answer-to-our-energy-problems-the-off-the-grid-economy/) - The near inexorable rise in UK energy prices over the past five years has made energy policy a topical electoral battleground for next month’s General Elections. But unsustainable energy prices reflect not just inadequate policy, but the need to re-think our entire energy model. Currently, the most popular electoral policy response to soaring energy prices - [Creating energy efficient homes in the UK – The East 7 Community Green Dividend](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/05/01/creating-energy-efficient-homes-in-the-uk-the-east-7-community-green-dividend/) - The UK’s housing stock is some of the least energy efficient in Europe, with energy waste accounting for 15% of the UK’s carbon dioxide emissions in September 2014. While energy inefficiency has clear environmental implications, it is also hurting UK consumers with the current average dual-fuel bill set to rise above £1,264 per year. - [Building the right homes, in the right places, for the right people](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/04/29/building-the-right-homes-in-the-right-places-for-the-right-people/) - In the middle of an election campaign, the last thing we expect to find is consensus. Yet in contrast to most other issues, we have found near-universal agreement that the UK is not building enough homes. But aside from the low numbers, we are exacerbating the problem by not incentivising development in the right places, - [Enabling communities to thrive: embedding social value locally](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/04/28/enabling-communities-to-thrive-embedding-social-value-in-communities/) - Whatever the outcome of the election, the challenge for any incoming government is clear. We need to find more effective ways to deliver public services that maximise the benefits to local communities, prevent problems and reduce future demand on services. As a new social contract is developed between citizens and the state, it is imperative - [The Crown and Social Value](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/04/27/the-crown-and-social-value/) - One of the more intriguing ideas to emerge from Cabinet Office under the Coalition government has been the resurrection of the concept of ‘The Crown’. Of course we’ve heard the rhetoric of joined-up government for decades now. But joining up sounds rather like a bit of an effort - something officials have to choose to - [Accessing the Future of Healthcare: Why the commissioning of new medicines must be a priority for the next government](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/04/22/new-medicines-why-commissioning-of-medicines-for-rare-diseases-must-be-a-priority-for-the-next-government/) - The Coalition Government should be commended for its efforts to drive the life sciences agenda. After setting down an early statement of intent with the Strategy for UK life sciences, last year’s re-launch of the Office for Life Sciences, operating across the departments of business and health, signalled a clear intention to harness the potential - [Cancer – a rare area of political convergence?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/04/24/cancer-a-rare-area-of-political-convergence/) - So manifestos are out and for those working on charities’ general election campaigns, the anxious wait is over. Of course we know that, even in a typical election, manifestos are only really of interest to policy wonks and the likelihood of a further coalition in May makes them less significant still. Any policies may be - [How to build better places](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/04/25/how-to-build-better-places-2/) - Urban places are popular. Think of where the world likes to go on holiday, and it is the great cities that attract millions of visitors. It isn’t only the larger international ones people want to spend time in either. Small, densely packed urbanism seems just as popular – found in towns like Rye on the - [Social Value – what’s in a name? Using the Act to change public services](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/04/29/social-value-whats-in-a-name-using-the-act-to-change-the-way-public-services-are-funded-and-delivered/) - The Social Value Act was born in unusual circumstances. As the former MP Tom Levitt recollects in his book, ‘Partners for Good’, the then new Conservative MP Chris White launched the Bill in October 2010. It gained Royal Assent in March 2012, ‘a feat of patience only made possible by Parliament’s long sitting between one - [Getting bolder with social value in procurement](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/04/30/getting-bolder-with-social-value-in-procurement/) - Working together will be the big theme of the new few years if we are to meet social need effectively. A new configuration of dependency, independence and inter-dependence in services for the public (and with and by the public) will be necessary in which public money and resources provide the seeds for change and not - [Women in Finance: Equality demands that maternity and family be put at the heart of business](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/04/24/women-in-finance-equality-demands-that-maternity-and-family-be-put-at-the-heart-of-business/) - The Prosperity programme at ResPublica is currently planning a series of events looking at culture change within financial services. Building on the success of ResPublica’s recent publication, Virtuous Banking: Placing ethos and purpose at the heart of finance, which reviewed the way in which the banking industry governs itself and explored how the financial sector - [Brilliance and Imperfection: How medical technology has the potential to help people with asthma](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/04/23/medical-technologies-helping-people-help-themselves-with-behavioural-design/) - Over the last few decades safe and effective new medical technologies have been widely welcomed by patients and health care professionals alike, and helped to transform life expectancy. Asthma inhalers are one of these major medical technology success stories – launching in the 1970’s they enabled the delivery of new active compounds to the lungs - [Addressing the Conservatives reputational deficit - the case for a Tory wealth tax](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/04/21/addressing-the-conservatives-reputational-deficit-the-case-for-a-tory-wealth-tax/) - As other journalists and commentators have noted, despite the impressive achievements of the Conservatives in coalition – jobs up, incomes increased and bureaucracy streamlined – the party still has a reputation for cut-throat ‘nastiness’ and serving entrenched privilege. As current polls show, voters have little patience for this when they have yet to feel the - [Health North: A step in the right direction for addressing health equity in the North of England?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/04/21/health-north-a-step-in-the-right-direction-for-addressing-health-equity-in-the-north-of-england/) - Our health and social care systems are at a crossroads and of the wide-ranging health challenges currently facing the UK, one of the most unsettling issues is the persistent health inequalities experienced by populations across the North of England. This is not new news and politicians have long tried to address these concerns. However, inequalities - [Life Sciences: The key to a 21st Century NHS](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/04/20/life-sciences-the-key-to-a-21st-century-nhs/) - As we approach polling day, I believe the choice we are facing on the future of the NHS is becoming ever more clear. The choice is simple: between the focus of Jeremy Hunt and the Conservative Health team on supporting NHS leaders to improve the culture of care and transparency, promote patient empowerment and accelerate - [A Community Finance Foundation: Helping the financial sector fulfil its civic duty](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/04/17/a-community-finance-foundation-helping-the-financial-sector-fulfil-its-civic-duty/) - When we step back and review how our lives work one thing that becomes abundantly clear is that they are entwined with the financial system. On a daily basis, we depend on financial services to enable us to eat, work and sleep. In fact, we are dependent on them from the cradle to the grave, - [Labour’s Manifesto: A more radical vision is needed](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/04/15/labours-manifesto-a-more-radical-vision-is-needed/) - There are two valid criticisms of Labour’s manifesto. One mentioned by a Labour loyalist friend of mine who tweeted ‘Labour should have produced a shiny looking short-form manifesto alongside the real thing’. I agree. A clever pocket sized summary that could be handed out by campaigners would have been a smart move. The political activist - [Community Finance: Expanding credit unions sustainably](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/04/16/community-finance-expanding-credit-unions-sustainably/) - The years since the turn of the century have been ones of growth and modernisation in the credit union sector. In 2000, there were 687 credit unions with 325,000 members, lending £175 million and with total assets of £214 million. In 2014, for the most part through merger, the number of credit unions had fallen - [Community Finance: The state of play in 2015](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/04/15/community-finance-2015-a-review/) - With over 200 people attending across the Community Development Finance Institutions (CDFI) industry, as well as across the private, public and public sectors, there was an undeniable buzz around Community Finance 2015 – the CDFA’s annual conference – at the Grand Connaught Rooms last month. With the 2015 General Election just around the corner, a - [Hot Air not Warm Homes: Why the Greens' manifesto commitments on energy efficiency are not credible](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/04/14/hot-air-not-warm-homes-why-the-greens-energy-efficiency-policy-are-not-credible/) - In previous years the release of the Green Party General Election manifesto has not been accompanied with a great deal of interest from the national media, but with a growing share of the vote and with the outcome of the election staggeringly uncertain, the party may yet help to determine who forms the new administration. - [Right to Buy, Wrong to Sell: Why the Conservatives' ‘Right to Buy’ for Housing Associations will do more harm than good](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/04/14/right-to-buy-wrong-to-sell-why-the-conservatives-right-to-buy-for-housing-associations-will-do-more-harm-than-good/) - It is further evidence of the priority now accorded to housing policy by the public and the media that much of the interest in the Conservative Party manifesto, published today, has focused on the proposed extension of the ‘right to buy’ policy to housing association (HA) tenants. This comes off the back of previous Conservative - [Community Finance: Providing better financial services for individuals and small businesses](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/04/14/community-finance-providing-better-financial-services-for-individuals-and-small-businesses/) - Since the financial crisis of 2008 there have been significant changes in access to credit. Much has been written about difficulties faced by small businesses, and the behaviour of banks withdrawing from small loans and (perceived) high risk investments. The same is broadly true for individuals seeking consumer credit whereby retail banks have largely withdrawn - [Community Finance: Capping the cost of credit is a job half done – here’s how to finish it](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/04/13/capping-the-cost-of-credit-is-a-job-half-done-heres-how-to-finish-it/) - A priest, a rabbi and an imam walked into a bank. It sounds like the start of a bad joke, but in fact it was the start of a very effective campaign. The year was 2009, and with the effects of the global financial crisis starting to really bite on ordinary families, the Citizens UK - [Technology disruption - coming to a bank near you](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/03/30/technology-disruption-coming-to-a-bank-near-you/) - Before entering Parliament I worked as an electrical engineer, mainly in telecoms. I spent a lot of time in network software development, getting networks to talk to each other and exchange voice and data. When people talk disparagingly about public sector IT I remember some of the decades-old code I worked on in the private - [Blockchain: The ability to scale trust](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/03/27/blockchain-the-ability-to-scale-trust/) - Most people I speak to regarding the Bitcoin protocol have never heard of it. Of those that have, the majority have heard of only bitcoin the ‘currency’. I put that in pretty quotation marks and italics because I am firmly in the “moonshot it will not go to zero” camp. Most of the reasons I - [User Autonomy: The confluence between private data stores and cryptocurrencies](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/03/26/user-autonomy-the-confluence-between-private-data-stores-and-cryptocurrencies/) - Users have migrated from running all their own software and storing files locally to accessing their data through cloud-based software solutions. The migration of files has also been accompanied with flows of personal information to corporations. Most financial transactions that we currently perform are already in digital form. Consumers authenticate themselves with their real identity - [The culture clash of cryptocurrencies](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/03/26/the-culture-clash-of-cryptocurrencies/) - The latest buzzwords on everyone’s lips is FinTech; the apparently effortless splicing of finance and technology into one expression. This seamless merger belies reality as the people working in the two industries are akin to oil and water when it comes to culture and terminology. There are a few rare individuals that have expertise in - [The return of monetary politics](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/03/25/the-return-of-monetary-economics/) - Last Wednesday the government formally announced plans to welcome and regulate digital currency activity in the UK. The promise of research funding, police training, and pragmatic regulation are welcome first steps, but to what end? The focus in this area tends to fall on questions of innovation, competition, crime, and jobs, but there may be - [Bitcoin is not anonymous](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/03/24/bitcoin-is-not-anonymous/) - The public image of bitcoin, cultivated by the media, is of the international criminal’s currency of choice – an anonymous, untraceable means of laundering proceeds of crime. This has made for compelling column inches, but the opposite is true. Bitcoin is in fact the most transparent payment method ever developed, and has the potential to - [How bitcoin works and how it’s going to change the world](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/03/23/how-bitcoin-works-and-how-its-going-to-change-the-world/) - If you’re anything like me, in various accounts online you’ll have some pounds, some airmiles, some supermarket rewards points, perhaps even some dollars or euros. These are all forms of money – they’re tokens that can be exchanged for some kind of good or service. None of them exist in physical form - even the - [The nature of prosperity](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/03/23/the-nature-of-prosperity/) - Last week, in London – one of the richest cities in the world – the Mayor announced a “Level 7 Warning” on air pollution. High levels of pollutants like NO2 and particulates fill the air, causing a perceptible haze in areas like St James’s Park. Pollution causes almost 30,000 premature deaths each year in the - [Trains, ports and friends up North](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/03/22/trains-ports-and-friends-up-north/) - In 2015, ResPublica’s work to rethink and reconfigure the case for high-speed rail infrastructure into the great City of Liverpool encompasses transport, planning, economics and many aspects of public and social policy. Liverpool’s future prosperity is essential to the Northern Powerhouse. Quite simply, through its Port, Liverpool is the North’s global gateway. The economic foundation - [The next government needs to keep up the pressure on tax avoiders](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/03/19/the-next-government-needs-to-keep-up-the-pressure-on-tax-avoiders/) - George Osborne has delivered what may be his last Budget Speech, so it’s apt to pause for a little retrospective. He’ll probably be best remembered for the budget he’d most like to forget, the so-called ‘Omnishambles’. The normally sure-footed chancellor appeared to wander into a minefield of obscure tax reforms, each subsequent U-turn unearthing another - [Structural Integrity: The firmer foundations required for long-term housing policy](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/03/03/structural-integrity-firmer-foundations-required-long-term-housing-policy/) - Even amidst noisier debates around immigration or the economy, housing remains a major political issue. David Cameron’s promise on Monday that the Conservatives would build 200,000 new ‘starter homes’ by 2020 was met by Ed Miliband’s assertion that a future Labour government would have “no greater priority” than housing. The “quiet crisis” of housing affordability - [Repositioning the Church of England as a strategic partner in public service reform](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/02/18/repositioning-church-england-strategic-partner-public-service-reform/) - The Church of England has been firmly in the public spotlight over the past few weeks. The celebrations in York at the consecration of its first female bishop provided a brief moment of euphoria after a 20-year journey towards modernisation. But there was little time to reflect as the Church was plunged into the headlines - [Rethinking Economics: The story so far](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/02/12/rethinking-economics-story-far/) - In 2011 and 2012 small numbers of disgruntled economics students started cropping up in universities across the UK. In Cambridge, Manchester, then UCL groups formed of those who were unhappy with the state of economics. Why it was only three or four years after the financial crisis that feelings of discontent found a concrete expression - [Who is my Neighbour? How the Church can stop politics from eating itself up](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/02/17/neighbour/) - Today, the Church of England’s House of Bishops issued a Pastoral Letter entitled Who is my Neighbour? – the first such extensive and reflective contribution to any election debate. It expresses dismay at ‘retail politics’ and anxiety about accumulations of power wherever they are found – whether in the state or the market. It contrasts - [Regulating Conduct – Where should the burden fall?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/02/12/regulating-conduct-burden-fall/) - It is concerning to read this morning of the decision to scrap the Financial Conduct Authority’s approved persons register and place the burden of regulating the conduct of individuals on the firms themselves, giving them primary responsibility for the fitness of all regulated staff. Certainly the general shift towards a culture of personal responsibility and - [Digital currencies and the future of financial innovation](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/02/12/digital-currencies-future-financial-innovation/) - Among financial and techie communities, digital currencies (DC), such as bitcoin, have become the exciting development to watch. It’s exciting because it could transform the way we transfer money in the UK. Bitcoin payments are approved via a network of other users, who verify them. Payments are instantaneous and completely transparent because a record of - [Reclaiming Temperance - Establishing a responsible and sociable drinking culture](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/02/06/reclaiming-temperance-establishing-responsible-sociable-drinking-culture/) - Britain has for centuries repeatedly faced the problem of binge drinking. As this article from January 1903 demonstrates, our current travails in tackling problem drinking are hardly new. What is required but is rarely addressed is culture change. When it comes to the consumption of alcohol we are arguably at a key moment where social - [Taking responsibility for local economic recovery](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/02/02/taking-responsibility-local-economic-responsibility/) - The trouble with economic recovery is that someone else always has to do it – the bankers, investors, industrialists or mandarins. What about the rest of us – and what about the places we live in? Are there no economic levers they can pull to improve their lives? One of the reasons they think they - [Labour needs simple answers to complicated questions](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/01/22/labour-needs-simple-answers-complicated-questions/) - What do a rock concert and a leftie conference have in common? Not much, except for ageing men nostalgic for their younger years and a chronic inability to keep to schedule. But the Fabian New Year Conference 2015 reminded me of a gig in another way. While the headliner drew in the punters, got them - [Why employee ownership is the ideal business succession solution for you, your business and your employees](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/01/14/employee-ownership-ideal-business-succession-solution-business-employees/) - Sell your company to its employees. This could be the best idea you ever read. An employee-buyout (EBO) ticks all the boxes including tax efficiency - and it is Government approved. Nick Clegg, Deputy Prime Minister, explained: "What we want to encourage is for more owners to sell the business on to those people who - [The unstoppable rise of employee ownership](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/01/13/unstoppable-rise-employee-ownership/) - At this time of year we think of the two faces of Janus, the Roman God after whom January is named, pointing in opposite directions, one that looks back to the year just gone and the other forward to the brand new year ahead. So let us for a moment adopt the Janus approach when - [The emerging intergenerational pay gap](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/12/21/emerging-intergenerational-pay-gap/) - After last week’s Autumn Budget Statement a number of news articles reported on the growing evidence that pensioners are actually fairly well-off these days. This is a bit of shock to someone my age (just turned 60): all my life I’ve been accustomed to viewing the elderly as generally impoverished and precariously vulnerable to the - [Austerity’s second dimension: why fiscal sustainability requires more than cuts](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/12/20/austeritys-second-dimension-fiscal-sustainability-requires-cuts/) - How should public borrowing evolve over the years to come? Ensuring the sustainability of public spending is essential to intergenerational fairness, since otherwise today’s young people will pay for the advantages enjoyed by current generations while receiving none of these opportunities themselves. Considerable resources will moreover be required to address the challenges an aging population - [Are young people being short-changed over pensions?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/12/19/young-people-short-changed-pensions/) - Pensions are inherently an intergenerational issue. To a greater or lesser extent, all the different types of pension scheme rely on one generation making a claim upon the productivity of the next one. In his book Good Times, Bad Times: The Welfare Myth of Them and Us, Professor Sir John Hills of the LSE refers - [Will Age Decide the 2015 Election?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/12/18/will-age-decide-2015-election/) - The 2015 General Election will be fascinating on many levels, not least because of the emergence of the UKIP vote. However, there are other factors that could affect the election result more profoundly, among them – most notably from an intergenerational point of view – voter age and cohort size. Ageing That we are living - [The Intergenerational Case for an Asset Tax](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/12/17/intergenerational-case-asset-tax/) - The issues of intergenerational inequality and asset inequality are closely linked in Britain today. Yet despite the fact that inequality more generally is increasingly recognised as a problem, neither of these factors receives the recognition it should in public debate. Even though wealth and asset inequality is much greater than income inequality, it is the - [The intergenerational divide in housing](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/12/16/intergenerational-divide-housing/) - Margaret Thatcher famously said she wanted Britain to become a “property-owning democracy”, an aspiration that has been echoed ever since by politicians of every persuasion. However, the dream of home-ownership is rapidly turning into a nightmare for millions of young people across the country, who face a growing struggle just to find adequate housing at - [The Intergenerational State of the Nation: why is fairness to grandchildren such a hot topic?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/12/15/intergenerational-state-nation-fairness-grandchildren-hot-topic/) - The UK has started to wake up to a new dimension of social justice. For decades the focus of many campaigners has been on fairness to today's poor and disadvantaged, but it is now becoming clear that our government is handing out benefits today at the expense of our children and grandchildren. Why has this - [Inspire EO: Informing thinking around employee ownership ](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/01/12/inspire-eo-informing-thinking-around-employee-ownership/) - Interest in employee ownership is, in my experience, most often motivated by a desire for a fairer and more responsible form of capitalism and a drive to encourage personal responsibility among employees. There is a growing consensus that the plc model, at least in the way that it currently tends to operate – based on - [Nothing in life is free - not even the NHS](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/01/09/nothing-life-free-not-even-nhs/) - It’s that time of year, when rising demand meets NHS spending limits. Why has this become such an annual – and unwelcome – winter event? The NHS raises passions like no other state organisation in the world. It stands like a beacon for its supporters of what can be achieved through the exercise of human - [Is Social Conservatism Conservative?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2015/01/05/social-conservatism-conservative/) - This article originally appeared in December 2014 in Comment Magazine, published by CARDUS: www.cardus.ca. At first sight and on primordial prejudice, social conservatism is coded as a right-wing, sectarian position focused obsessively on marriage, the nuclear family, and abortion. It is held to be contrary to human freedom, liberalism, and all the other goods we - [A Department for Education and Leadership](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/12/16/department-education-leadership/) - If there is just one character trait that pupils should leave school accomplished in, it should be that embodied by a one Mahatma Gandhi: “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” Top marks then to Nicky Morgan who last week announced a string of new policies to stamp her mark on - [Architecture and Happiness – or who deserves good design ](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/12/15/architecture-happiness-deserves-good-design/) - I am a chief executive of a small housing association that has a modest development programme, and we take the view that good design of new developments is very important. I am aware that there is a big tension between good design and producing lower cost ‘boxes’. Private developers and housing associations (and local authorities), - [Money Creation and Society: The beginning of the debate on how money is created](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/12/12/money-creation-society-beginning-debate-money-created/) - The Chancellor’s autumn statement shows how much scrutiny parliament places on how money is spent, with relatively small changes to budgets generating either applause or outrage. But parliament has a habit of completely overlooking more fundamental questions about money, questions such as: who should be allowed to create it in the first place? How much new - [Talking to bankers: Maths and morals](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/12/12/talking-bankers-maths-morals/) - I recently asked a prominent mathematician who once ran a hedge fund, Doyne Farmer, whether seeking to make a riskless profit was ethical. I don't think he understood the question. Mathematics has always been part of finance but with the re-introduction of derivatives markets in the 1970s and their growth in the nineties, ‘quants’, trained - [ResPublica Recommends: Pope Francis' Strasbourg Address in full ](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/12/12/respublica-recommends-pope-francis-strasbourg-address-full/) - I am happy to address this solemn session which brings together a significant representation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, representatives of member States, the Judges of the European Court of Human Rights as well as the members of the various institutions which make up the Council of Europe. Practically all of - [Does Labour's Green Paper go far enough to end cold homes?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/11/21/labours-green-paper-go-far-enough-end-cold-homes/) - There is cross-party consensus that we need to improve the thermal efficiency of the UK’s homes. Not only will it help to bring down energy bills for hard pressed consumers, but will also reduce carbon emissions, and the number of deaths caused by cold amongst vulnerable people each winter. Nobel laureate and former United States - [Why the employee ownership sector has the right to be confident](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/11/21/employee-ownership-sector-right-confident/) - The 2014 Employee Ownership Association Annual Conference in Nottingham was the largest yet. Around 500 delegates attended a day of seminars and keynotes to hear how their membership is successfully laying the foundations for a new economy based on the principle of employee engagement. Organised by the Employee Ownership Association (EOA), the membership organisation for - [Broadcast news is debased, it needs to take itself seriously](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/11/17/broadcast-news-is-debased-it-needs-to-take-itself-seriously/) - Make your own pick, but mine would be the spectacle, a little while ago, of Kirsty Wark ‘interviewing’ the Cookie Monster from the Muppet Show on Newsnight. The point? Who knows, other than it was someone’s idea of a good laugh, largely at Wark’s expense. What it did do, was to diminish Newsnight’s stature, but - [Compassionate care can’t be an extra – it must be at the heart of planning for a future NHS](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/09/29/compassionate-care-cant-extra-must-heart-planning-future-nhs/) - A recurring phrase of this week’s labour party conference was that we need to make sure that all NHS staff ‘have time to care’. It is promising to see the importance of a caring environment in the NHS getting such a high profile in plans for the general election. Over the last five years we’ve - [Obesity: Why size does matter](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/01/04/obesity-size-matter/) - Globally Britain already has one of the highest levels of obesity. By the end of the decade it is predicted that one in three adults will be classified as obese (see slide 1). The health consequences of such a rise are staggering, as obesity is directly correlated with a myriad of diseases (see slide 2). - [Tory Socialism and the First Working Class Man](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/01/07/tory-socialism-first-working-class-man/) - A short tweet caught my eye. The author was our own Red Tory, Phillip Blond, and the subject was the Factory Act of 1847, better known as the Ten Hour Act because it ensured that no woman and no child under eighteen could be compelled to work more than ten hours a day. It was - [One Unitarian View of Marriage](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/01/10/one-unitarian-view-marriage/) - One of the beneficial effects of the current debate on equal marriage has been to stimulate thinking about the role and significance of marriage more generally. In recent years there has been talk of fundamental reform of the Marriage Act - however, Governments have kept clear of the issue. The nature or marriage in current - ['Bank of Mum' & Megawatt Parties](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/01/14/bank-mum-megawatt-parties/) - 2012 was the year that I tapped 'bank of mum' for a loan, and subsequently threw my first two 'megawatt parties'. On this occasion, however, I could offer something back to Mum - a market-beating rate of return. And at the same time, I could benefit. I am a practitioner and co-founder of Generation Community - [The Depardieu Affair](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/01/21/depardieu-affair/) - It’s no pleasure to see the once great (and make no mistake, Gérard Depardieu is, or was, the most charismatic French actor since Jean Gabin) turn themselves into a laughing stock. But the sheer grotesqueness of the mountainous actor’s tax-evading cavalcade through Belgium and Russia should not be allowed to obfuscate the important lessons it - [Issues Encountered by Family Carers of the Elderly](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/01/25/issues-encountered-family-carers-elderly/) - Caring for ageing parents can put a huge strain on families, particularly those people who may also be looking after young children at the same time. There are both emotional and financial implications to negotiate, and if the parent or parents being looked after have a degenerative condition, such as Alzheimer's, those caring for them - [Reform, Rearrange and Resource: The three Rs we really need](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/02/05/reform-rearrange-resource-three-rs-really-need/) - Education is one of those subjects, up there with healthcare, law and order, and possibly religion, which never fails to attract attention and generate discussion. On the whole this is a good thing; sharing ideas and information is the key to catalysing change. The problem is that too often real progress and innovation are nowhere - [Smart Islands in a Dumb City](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/02/11/smart-islands-dumb-city/) - The concept of a smart or future city has been around for several years now. We have all seen the video that shows how our journey to the airport will be transformed in the future, with transport systems that are not only fully integrated, but intelligent enough to respond to changing circumstances and demands. These - [The Future of Love: The erotic politics of Benedict XVI](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/02/13/future-love-erotic-politics-benedict-xvi/) - The papacy of Benedict XVI, though sadly short, has been one of immense significance. More than any other Pope in recent memory, he understood the deepest theological currents that lay behind Vatican II, and stood doggedly against a threatened revival of neo-scholastic conservatism by insisting on the co-belonging of faith and reason. Faith, for Benedict, - [Citizen Centric Cities](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/02/13/citizen-centric-cities/) - We all have our daily routines. Depending on where I am, mine either starts at 6am with a dash to London or at 7am with breakfast and taking the kids to school followed by a day working at home. One is relaxed and almost entirely in my control, the other is frantic, stressful and puts - [Mid Staffs: The public sector’s Lehman Brothers](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/02/18/mid-staffs-public-sectors-lehman-brothers/) - Mid-Staffs is the public sector’s Lehman Brothers, an organisation in which staff were faced in the wrong direction, the numbers were bogus and measured the wrong thing, and managers spent 95 per cent of their time on the wrong part of the job. With such an inept management model Lehman went bust; Mid-Staffs resulted in - [A Parliament for the NHS?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/02/25/parliament-nhs/) - The most fundamental issues raised by the Francis report on Mid-Staffordshire Hospital are not about the institutions or even culture, but about voice and power: who is heard, who is silenced and who, tragically, dies from deafness. This issue was raised by earlier scandals at Alder Hey, the Bristol Royal Infirmary and Winterbourne View Hospital, - [Building Community and Opportunity: A new approach to local growth](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/03/05/building-community-opportunity-new-approach-local-growth/) - Politicians of all shades should be pleased that the latest report from the think tank ResPublica is about Britain’s strivers. While researching it I was struck by the amount of striving that goes on, often in unexpected places. In half-abandoned streets in west Hull, for instance, families are striving to make ends meet and bring - [Anarchism As Management Theory](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/03/15/anarchism-management-theory/) - As we’ve stumbled our collective way into ‘The Age of Social,’ countless systems, across all parts of society have begun to look woefully ill-equipped for a world in which a single tweet may come to exert as much influence as the media moguls of the 20th Century ever have imagined possible. Among those ill-equipped systems - [The Cultural Myriad: A vision for Britain’s museums and galleries](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/03/19/cultural-myriad-vision-britains-museums-galleries/) - Britain’s national museums and galleries have so far been a major success story of the 21st century. A decade of government commitment to the sector massively expanded its horizons, and the public has fully embraced and enjoyed these accomplishments. Today’s government should capitalise on this success by appreciating the support that they require in stringent - [Making It Mutual: The way of the future](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/03/21/making-mutual-way-future/) - Britain is in a global race for the jobs and opportunities of the future. We cannot afford to ignore the potential of co-operative and mutual business models to drive growth and help build a more resilient economy. Employee-owned firms have, on average, 4-5% higher productivity than other businesses and 98% of co-operative start-ups are still - [ResPonses to the Budget](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/03/22/responses-budget/) - The Chancellor of the Exchequer delivered the Budget to Parliament on 20th March, proposing a new set of economic measures meant to combat the economic malaise. Chancellor George Osborne announced that the present budget targets “people who aspire to work hard and get on” and those sectors driving up economic growth in the UK. The - [Making It Mutual: The Case for a Co-operation Policy](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/03/22/making-mutual-case-co-operation-policy/) - The UK has a competition regime, but still lacks some of the essential ingredients it needs for the nation to be competitive on the world stage in a tough economic climate. At the heart of this is the need for a model to allow enterprises and their partners to co-operate in order to compete. My - [Making It Mutual: Achieving the economic benefits of a more plural economy](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/03/25/making-mutual-achieving-economic-benefits-plural-economy/) - Interest in employee ownership is, in my experience, most often motivated by a desire for a fairer and more responsible form of capitalism and a drive to encourage personal responsibility among employees. Those benefits are certainly real, and the interest in the former is stronger than ever in the aftermath of the financial crisis. But - [Budget 2013: Small steps for small business support](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/03/26/budget-2013-small-steps-small-business-support/) - Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) could be the salutary lifeboat that the British economy needs for its lengthy recovery, but the current Government hasn’t yet been able to produce an aggregate policy offer to support them. Does George Osborne’s budget “for people who aspire to work hard and get on” also serve the needs of - [Making It Mutual: Employee ownership is our industrial future](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/03/26/making-mutual-employee-ownership-industrial-future/) - Employee ownership is now the most prominent and popular alternative to conventional forms of business ownership in the UK. Interest in it within business communities is increasing daily. It is currently growing at an annual rate of around 10%. [1] Employee ownership makes an important contribution to the UK economy and has vast potential. This - [Making It Mutual: Seizing the decade for employee ownership](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/03/27/making-mutual-seizing-decade-employee-ownership/) - Employee ownership has to overcome fundamental obstacles in order to become part of the mainstream UK economy. In 2012, Westminster and Whitehall acknowledged these obstacles and committed to working with the employee ownership sector and others to help dismantle them. All of the recommendations in the Nuttall Review were supported, partly accepted or for the - [Making It Mutual: Lessons from the past – advice to the future](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/03/28/making-mutual-lessons-past-advice-future/) - As this collection of essays is published, The Co-operative Group is celebrating its 150th anniversary. Inevitably, it’s a moment to look back and reflect on where we have come from and what we have achieved. And that achievement should be seen as stretching well beyond the confines of the Co-operative Movement. We have staked out - [Making It Mutual: Governance and voice](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/04/02/making-mutual-governance-voice/) - Mutual and employee-owned organisations (MEOs) are public and private enterprises, which have the potential to provide social, as well as economic, benefits. As a philosophy, mutualism is a set of ideas and principles governing the relations between individuals; as an organisational practice, mutuality is characterised by distinctive ownership and governance structures which express the values - [Community Owned Shops: The modern co-operative pioneers](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/04/03/community-owned-shops-modern-co-operative-pioneers/) - The General Election in 2010 saw a major landmark in the development of the Co-operative Movement. For the first time ever, the three largest political parties all made glowing reference to the role of co-operatives in British society and how they would support them if elected. It marked a major breakthrough both in terms recognition - [Credit Unions: Scaling up the sector to empower communities](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/04/04/credit-unions-scaling-sector-empower-communities/) - It was racial discrimination in 1960s London which led to the setting up of the first credit union in Britain fifty years ago. Credit unions have existed in the Caribbean since the 1940s, and immigrants to Britain from Jamaica and Trinidad decided upon their arrival in the UK to set up a self-help organisation so - [Making It Mutual: Insurance and mutuality](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/04/05/making-mutual-insurance-mutuality/) - Insurance, at its heart, is a mutual concept: a group of people coming together to solve a shared problem – an uncertain risk of a large loss occurring in specified circumstances – which is solved by exchanging the potential of a large loss for a (comparatively) small premium. Self-help mutual societies can be traced back - [Making It Mutual: A community energy revolution](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/04/08/making-mutual-community-energy-revolution/) - I’m standing on the beach at Hvide Sande, in the northern reaches of Denmark, on a cold October morning. Strong gusts of wind pick up sand and throw it straight at my face. It’s not a good day for a picnic. But it’s a great day for the three wind turbines on the edge of - [Mutual Rail Companies: A key to unlocking a rebalanced economy](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/04/10/mutual-rail-companies-key-unlocking-rebalanced-economy/) - History shows that leaders often turn to infrastructure projects at times of historic economic crisis. It normally pays off. Roosevelt’s dams, Churchill’s radar and Kennedy’s space programme all laid the foundations for long term economic advantage. (Kennedy’s space program is still paying dividends as the platform for the US’s global leadership in IT.) We need - [Making It Mutual: Common ownership of land, infrastructure and natural assets](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/04/15/making-mutual-common-ownership-land-infrastructure-natural-assets/) - Land is the ultimate non-renewable resource: they really aren’t making it any more. So does it matter who owns it? Owners of land come in many guises: private companies or individuals pursuing purely private ends, government in the interests of citizens, or not-for-profit organisations with a social or community-driven purpose. These owners can operate at - [Around the World in Volatile Economies](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/04/17/around-world-volatile-economies/) - In 1791 Thomas Paine wrote: “there can be no such thing as a Nation flourishing alone in commerce; she can only participate”. In September 2010 William Hague, then the new Foreign Secretary, drew on this insight when addressing how Britain will continue to compete in the modern ‘networked world’. It is clearly a sensible policy - [Making It Mutual: Establishing a local banking sector](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/04/18/making-mutual-establishing-local-banking-sector/) - There is much to be said for local banking. Local banks are based in the community, lend to the community, and make all of their decisions in the community. Localised banks would not only provide a proper return to investors, but make sure that profits are ploughed back into the local area. Last July I - [The Big Society in a Small Country](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/04/19/big-society-small-country/) - It has been suggested that the Big Society is essentially an English affair. I do not agree. The basic thesis of my latest book, The Big Society in a Small Country: Wales, Social Capital, Mutualism and Self-Help, is that not only is the Big Society relevant to Wales in the sense of providing much needed - [Poverty: What does it really mean?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/04/23/poverty-really-mean/) - The social and political agenda in the UK has been polarised over the past several weeks on the issue of welfare reform, with the Government supporting work-centred measures as a method of poverty relief, while different organisations and societal actors argue that these proposed measures would push even more people into poverty. This debate begs - [Co-operative Schools: Transforming teachers, students and communities](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/04/25/co-operative-schools-transforming-teachers-students-communities/) - The Co-operative College has over recent years worked with the Co-operative Party and schools to develop a distinct co-operative trust model that enables schools to embed co-operative values into the long term ethos of the school. Through an extensive network built by the Schools Co-operative Society, co-operative schools have access to mutual and targeted support - [Heedful Histories: The contemporary curriculum](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/04/26/heedful-histories-contemporary-curriculum/) - It is admirable that the Secretary of State for Education wants to place history back at the centre of the national curriculum. It is similarly admirable that he wants to see it taught in a coherent and where possible chronological way which can reflect how events and topics meaningfully interrelate, rather than leaving the student - [Making It Mutual: Community ownership of a valued British asset](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/05/09/making-mutual-community-ownership-valued-british-asset/) - Three years ago Dover stood on the brink. The port was on the verge of breaking forever its historic links with the town and surrounding communities and passing into the hands of unknown private owners. Its focus on serving the best interests of all of its stakeholders, including central, local, district and regional government, the - [A One Nation Approach to Small Businesses](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/05/17/one-nation-approach-small-businesses/) - With the publication of Lord Young’s report the government has reminded us that it still holds Small Medium Enterprise (SME) growth central to the economic recovery. But by taking a One Nation approach and encouraging the creation of supply chains, small businesses would be able to grow, develop and compete together. In his second report, - [The Everyday Peacemakers on our Streets](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/06/14/everyday-peacemakers-streets/) - Our collective breath was taken away by the bravery of the women who guarded Lee Rigby’s body, the soldier murdered in Woolwich on 22nd May, especially Ingrid Loyau-Kennett who engaged directly with the killers, bloody weapons still held tight in their hands. Her immediate response to get off her bus, to talk and listen to - [Making it Mutual: A pioneering milestone for Rochdale](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/06/26/making-mutual-pioneering-milestone-rochdale/) - Wednesday 26th June marks the last formal step in the transition of Rochdale Boroughwide Housing (RBH) from municipal to mutual ownership. This is the point where our transitional governance arrangements end and RBH becomes a true mutual, owned solely by its tenant and employee members. RBH is now the very first co-owned mutual housing organisation - [The Government can transform British Banking](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/07/17/government-can-transform-british-banking/) - This last month has seen a resurgence in activity on banking reform. In the space of a week we were privy to the publication of the Banking Commission’s long awaited report, the Chancellor’s Mansion House speech, and were informed of the departure of both Stephen Hester from RBS and Paul Tucker from the Bank of - [Churches: Agents for social transformation](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/07/30/churches-agents-social-transformation/) - Chatting with an Anglican vicar last week I was fascinated to hear his views on how the Church could be the agent for social transformation. His understanding was that, as pews became established within churches the perception of these buildings changed from being community resources for the benefit of everyone to solely being places of - [Community Energy: lessons from Germany](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/08/05/community-energy-lessons-germany/) - The Department for Energy and Climate Change's (DECC) call for evidence on 'community energy', which closes today, sets out a series of questions regarding the capacity of the sector, and the various barriers faced by communities across the country who wish to become collective producers of their own energy. The call for evidence is an - [Promoting Good Investment through the Church](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/08/05/promoting-good-investment-church/) - In recent weeks, the church and its investments have dominated the headlines. Archbishop Justin has spoken of his desire to harness our resources to compete loan sharks out of existence. He has also welcomed ResPublica’s new report on Holistic Mission: Social action and the The Church of England – a report which shows how much - [Citizen's bid to buy back the grid: lessons from Germany](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/08/14/citizens-bid-buy-back-grid-lessons-germany/) - The city of Berlin has just become adorned with posters and billboards communicating the various campaigns of the major political parties. With the next General Election on the horizon (22nd September), much is on the agenda and much is at stake, not least the future of Germany's Energiewende - literally 'energy turnaround' or 'energy transition' - [The Future of Community Heat: Lessons from Germany](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/08/20/future-community-heat-lessons-germany/) - With so much focus on the Energy Bill and reforms to overhaul the electricity market, the provision of our heat is often relegated to the side-lines. But nearly half (44%) of the energy we use in the UK is for heating - whether this be for industry, businesses or our houses - and must therefore - [A Story of ”the Church Militant here on earth” and the Usurers? There’s more to it than that!](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/08/23/story-church-militant-earth-usurers-theres/) - The Church of England’s contribution to the controversial debate over payday loan companies has received a good deal of media coverage. This is of course an issue that has troubled politicians and even professional football players (in the case of Papiss Cisse and his Newcastle shirt!). During these difficult economic times, the thought of ruthless - [The economic and social benefits of community energy](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/09/05/economic-social-benefits-community-energy/) - The Department for Energy and Climate Change is currently reviewing its policy towards community energy, seeking evidence of its benefits and a better understanding of the barriers to its development. Earlier this year, as part of my Clore Social Leadership Fellowship, I was seconded to the National Trust to look at how it is supporting - [Between debt and financial exclusion - Payday loans: the lesser of two evils](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/09/23/debt-financial-exclusion-payday-loans-lesser-two-evils/) - At the Liberal Democrat party conference last weekend, ResPublica changed the debate on payday loans, exploring both the drawbacks and advantages of short term credit. The verdict: not that guilty after all. Since the financial crisis, lenders have become more stringent in their activities, and now largely exclude two categories of consumers: small businesses and - [Supporting the Brave](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/09/24/supporting-brave/) - The UK economy remains in transition. Growth is slow. Austerity is the new norm. It will be with us for another decade or more as an antidote to the poisonous effects of some of the mistakes of the past. Stagflation is an on-going risk. Amidst these on-going economic challenges we face in the UK, a - [Miliband’s energy price fixing pledge will do nothing to address the market’s endemic problems](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/09/26/milibands-energy-price-fixing-pledge-will-nothing-address-markets-endemic-problems/) - True, our energy bills are soaring and more households are sinking into fuel poverty, but such endemic problems are the result of much larger infrastructural issues that the party leaders must address. Ed Miliband’s energy price fixing policy will only serve as a ‘sticking plaster’ solution to what has become a non-competitive market dominated by - [Labour’s ‘Apprentice Tax’ Will Harm the Labour Market](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/10/04/labours-apprentice-tax-will-harm-labour-market/) - Labour’s plan to reduce non-EU immigration has polarised public and political agendas over the past week, mainly due to the pledge to secure ‘a Brit job for every foreign worker’, also known in the media as ‘the apprentice tax’. More specifically, Labour leader Ed Miliband suggested that companies hiring foreigners should also train local young - [We need a ‘major revolution’ rather than ‘small scale evolution’ in public sector commissioning](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/10/14/need-major-revolution-rather-small-scale-evolution-public-sector-commissioning/) - I had the privilege to chair an excellent discussion at the ResPublica fringe meeting on public service innovation. The conversation focused primarily but not exclusively on the social sector’s contribution. Speakers including Nick Hurd, Minister for Civil Society, acknowledged that the social sector – charities, community groups, social enterprises and co-operatives – have a long - [Pre-Regulation: Removing the need for regulators and state regulation](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/11/01/pre-regulation-removing-need-regulators-state-regulation/) - The regulation of organisations and markets is a costly affair. State regulation currently costs the UK economy somewhere in the region of £30bn every year. Employment laws, health and safety regulations and financial compliance legislation provide the bulk of these costs. But are such levels of regulation, or even regulation at all, absolutely necessary? It - [Making sure work pays](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/11/06/making-sure-work-pays/) - Poverty is costly for the British Government. It has to cover large parts of the living costs for millions of people who earn less than the defined living standards; in the meantime this keeps the poor stuck in a poverty trap. The Living Wage on the other hand would insure greater financial independence for those - [Reform to the Sustainable Communities Act: How participation will revolutionise politics](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/11/13/reform-sustainable-communities-act-participation-will-revolutionise-politics/) - Parish and town councils are the closest level of governance to the local community, but have historically had less power over local issues than larger councils. There was a big shift to this last month, when Local Works achieved their latest campaign aim to extend the powers of the Sustainable Communities Act to these small - [Forget Help to Buy, let’s have Help to Generate](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/11/14/forget-help-buy-lets-help-generate/) - This year, the concept of community or locally owned energy has, to some extent, gone mainstream. Large scale projects such as Neilston, Westmill and Lochcarnan have hit local headlines, and politicians have hit the headlines nationally, expressing effusive support. A feelgood buzz around community energy The government is just about to launch its Community Energy - [Faith Communities Make Society More Civil](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/11/18/faith-communities-make-society-civil/) - With the celebration of Inter Faith Week and Mitzvah Day this week, faith communities will again have the opportunity to show us that they are the architects and builders of civil society. This is the network of charities, voluntary and community groups, which this government has termed “the Big Society.” The report “Holistic Mission”, published - [Learning Lessons from Church Schools](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/11/19/learning-lessons-church-schools/) - The need for a new approach It often seems that our current political class is unable to break out of the paucity of partisan debate, whereby solutions must be either market-based or state-based. ResPublica reminds us of this nation’s great heritage of institutions. These institutions can take a more holistic approach to addressing problems of - [Innovation, Social Investment and the Church’s Mission](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/11/21/innovation-social-investment-churchs-mission/) - The Church is a longstanding driver of social innovation. Just a brief glance through history reveals myriad examples of churches engaged in the service of their communities. From monasteries pioneering educational and health care services to modern-day food banks, the Christian community has embarked upon local social innovation at countless levels. This is not to - [Community Budgets: The proven path to local empowerment](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/11/25/community-budgets-proven-path-local-empowerment/) - At the same time as facing increased demand for services, councils up and down the country are grappling with significant reductions to their budgets. This cannot go on indefinitely – something has to give. Unless councils can find ways to substantially reduce costs, those non-essential services that are relied upon by many – libraries, sports - [If you eat, you're in: Building a better society through food](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/11/26/eat-youre-building-better-society-food/) - Why has a local food movement that started in a rather run-down Yorkshire mill town turned into a phenomenon that’s catching people’s imagination around the world? Incredible Edible Todmorden has been going six years since its co-founder, Pam Warhurst, came back from a conference inspired to take action in her community; since community worker Mary - [Democratising Schooling: Enfranchising our pupils to foster responsibility](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/11/27/democratising-schooling-enfranchising-pupils-foster-responsibility/) - In previous decades the UK’s education system has been targeted for numerous reforms, but in many ways its potential has barely been tapped. The biggest failure of today’s vision of educational reform is its inability to see schools as the generators of social, political and economic capital that they could be. One system of education - [Restoring the Demos: Is compulsory voting the answer?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/11/27/restoring-demos-compulsory-voting-answer/) - Last month Russell Brand espoused his disdain for our ‘broken political system’. He asserted that, by voting, we endorse the inadequacy of our leaders and reinforce the imbalance of our flawed system of democracy. Nick Boles brought further attention to the general ennui of so many across the political spectrum in suggesting that the Conservatives - [Land Value Tax: The radical solution to the housing crisis](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/11/28/land-value-tax-radical-solution-housing-crisis/) - There is no questioning that the most pressing issue in domestic politics today is housing. With millions of individuals and families waiting for social housing and many first time buyers priced out the market, it is clear that current housing policy is failing. Britain is in the depths of a housing crisis and the debate - [2013 Autumn Statement: A long term vision for housing](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/12/02/2013-autumn-statement-long-term-vision-housing/) - Housing is breaking through as a mainstream policy issue more strongly than it has done for a decade or more. That’s primarily down to two factors; growing public concern around accessing ownership and the wider costs of living; and cross party recognition that this is not so much a problem, but rather a full-blown crisis. - [2013 Autumn Statement: Something old and something new](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/12/03/2013-autumn-statement-something-old-something-new/) - I have just two wishes: something old and something new. Something new would be that The Chancellor could allow investors to include loan-based crowdfunding investments in their annual ISA allowance It is now possible to include unlisted AIM shares in your ISA allowance, and the Treasury is understood to be generally supportive of increasing the - [2013 Autumn Statement: Give charities a break](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/12/04/2013-autumn-statement-give-charities-break/) - Given the political pressure over recent weeks and months it would be surprising if the Chancellor did not make an announcement aimed at tackling the increasing rates burden on businesses in his Autumn Statement this week. And with the commitment by Ed Miliband that the Labour party would freeze business rates, it seems likely that - [2013 Autumn Statement: An SME’s Christmas wish list](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/12/05/2013-autumn-statement-smes-christmas-wish-list/) - Lending to SMEs, or rather the lack of it, is one of the biggest impediments to a healthy UK economic recovery. Up until now, the Government has been relying on the methadone treatments of QE and the Funding for Lending Scheme (which, to date, has only served to boost the housing bubble) to keep our - [2013 Autumn Statement: ResPublica ResPonds](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/12/08/2013-autumn-statement-respublica-responds/) - Thursday 5th December saw the Chancellor George Osborne deliver his fourth Autumn Statement to the Commons. Following a week’s worth of predications and the usual leaks to the media, to somewhat subdued anticipation the Chancellor used his opportunity at the despatch box to formally outline the Government’s plans for Britain’s economic future. The central message - [The Church and the Future of Credit Unions](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/12/12/church-future-credit-unions/) - In a co-ordinated demonstration of support for credit unions, over 40 Bishops visited or joined their local credit union in October. In the wake of comments by the Archbishop of Canterbury in the summer, churches and credit unions are working together to strengthen the provision of local, affordable financial services in the communities they both - [Immigration Week: Stories, Statistics And Stereotyping](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/12/17/immigration-week-stories-statistics-stereotyping/) - In 1946 a young, half Serbian, quarter Spanish girl arrived in the UK on a Cessna plane from Belgrade. She spoke only Serbo-Croat. She had seen her Jewish friends carted off to the concentration camps and her mother’s hair had turned white with the effort of keeping her alive during the wartime years in Yugoslavia. - [Immigration Week: The Social Dimensions Of Integration](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/12/18/immigration-week-social-dimensions-integration/) - According to the concerned public bodies and much of the media, migrants are the bane of the NHS. In October last year an official report commissioned by the government, announced that the NHS was spending up to £2bn a year on foreign visitors and short-term migrants, with so –called ‘health tourists’ costing between £70m and - [Immigration Week: Figuring Out Integration](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2013/12/18/immigration-week-figuring-integration/) - The current debate around immigration amongst politicians and the media, which has become increasingly negative, has led to growing tensions within communities who continue to struggle with the idea of integration. While those in the political sphere, and even the community sector, exchanged the term about with ease, there is little discussion around what ‘integration’ - [Immigration Week: The Costs Of Bashing Immigration](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/01/06/immigration-week-costs-bashing-immigration/) - Immigration has been a major political topic in the UK during 2013. Yet despite all the evidence which shows that immigration has a positive impact on the British economy and the lip service that politicians from all parties pay to the benefits of diversity in our society, most of the debate has been about how - [Who Is Lonely And When?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/01/17/lonely/) - Who is lonely and when? Loneliness (that unwelcome feeling that occurs when there is a mismatch between the number and quality of relationships we want and those we have) can be a serious issue for many older people. In Great Britain, up to 1 in 10 adults aged 65 or over say that they feel - [Community Energy Strategy: The Roadblock to Scaling Community Energy](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/01/22/community-energy-strategy-roadblock-scaling-community-energy/) - Community Energy will remain the domain of wealthy areas where volunteers (often professionals and retired) muster up the enthusiasm, knowledge and community spirit to deploy and finance a low carbon technology, for the benefit of the community. Whist I am an avid supporter, and investing member, of this type of mutual ownership of low carbon - [Student Debt: Abandon All Hope?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/01/23/student-debt-abandon-hope/) - Much has been written over the last fifteen years, since University tuition fees were first introduced, about the rights and the wrongs of asking graduates to pay back society for their degrees. Whatever your views on the best way in which this should be done, most commentators and all political parties now agree that a - [Community Energy Strategy: Is This The Game Changer We Have Been Waiting For?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/01/27/community-energy-strategy-game-changer-waiting/) - This strategy could not come soon enough. At a time of rapidly rising energy bills and growing concerns over the impact of energy infrastructure on our precious landscapes, community energy offers people a chance not only to take more control of their energy - where it comes from and what it costs - but also - [Community Shop: The UK’s First Social Supermarket, Delivering Surplus Food For Social Good](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/01/27/community-shop-uks-first-social-supermarket-delivering-surplus-food-social-good/) - If you haven’t been to Goldthorpe before, you may be unaware of its rich history. A former mining town within South Yorkshire with a proud heritage, it has fallen on hard times in recent years, and is now amongst the most deprived areas in the UK. Food poverty is a real problem here, like many - [Community Energy Strategy: A Step In The Right Direction?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/01/28/community-energy-strategy-step-right-direction/) - It’s been a truism of community energy activism for many years that what communities have managed to achieve across the UK has been ‘in spite of’ the policies and regulations which shape our energy system rather than ‘because of’. So the publication of the Government’s long-awaited Community Energy Strategy is potentially when that changes and - [Community Energy Strategy: A ‘Second Way’ For The UK’s Energy Market](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/01/29/community-energy-strategy-second-way-uks-energy-market/) - Publication of the first Community Energy Strategy is a welcome recognition that the UK’s energy consumers don’t have to be abandoned to the mercy of faceless multi-national conglomerates. The community energy model is well proven in many parts of Europe – and the USA come to that – but hitherto hopelessly under-exploited in the UK. - [Community Energy Strategy: What are the implications for commercial developers?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/02/05/community-energy-strategy-implications-commercial-developers/) - DECC’s Community Energy Strategy is a glass half full for some, and half empty for others. Jonathan Porritt gave it a 4/10. Megan Darby of Utility Week was rather more impressed and summarised it in a very readable article entitled “DECC feels community spirit.” From the perspective of commercial project developers, it contains a fairly - [Community Energy Strategy: Opportunities for finance and investment](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/02/06/community-energy-strategy-opportunities-finance-investment/) - Last week’s Community Energy Strategy sets out, in part, to identify how to support investment funding for community energy. A series of grants and funding schemes from across different parts of government are highlighted. The issue is there is actually no shortage of investment funding available for renewable energy in the UK. If you are - [Markets for the Many: Banks have a responsibility to lend to deprived communities](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/02/07/markets-many-banks-responsibility-lend-deprived-communities/) - Soon after the financial crisis hit in 2008, the most pressing issue on everyone’s mind was how our finance sector could be reformed so that a meltdown of this degree would never again occur and economic stability could return to the UK. But since the dust has started to settle and confidence has begun to - [Faith in Britain: It's time for religious communities to look outwards](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/02/11/faith-britain-time-religious-communities-look-outwards/) - There are those who view religion as a force for good and wish to see it play a greater role in shaping society, and there are those who view religion as a malign and wish to see it forced to the margins of society. Here I shall argue for a third way. There are those - [Growing Into Politics: How lowering the voting age could combat turnout decline](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/02/18/growing-politics-lowering-voting-age-combat-turnout-decline/) - Voter engagement among the young is low and seems set to fall still further: only 44% of those aged 18 voted in the 2010 general election, and only 12% of this age group say that they are “certain to vote” at the next from 30% just two years ago. Lowering the voting age to 16 - [The UK and the Ukraine: On the point of splitting?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/02/24/uk-ukraine-point-splitting/) - Presently, the United Kingdom and the Ukraine seem to be on the brink of separation, and what is noteworthy is the different ways these break-ups appear to be playing out. There are already dead people on the streets in the Ukraine, while Scottish Nationalists remain unharmed by the forces of the State. If the Ukraine - [Sound and Fury cloud the Bishops’ words](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/03/05/sound-fury-cloud-bishops-words/) - There was furore when a letter on food poverty, signed by twenty-seven Anglican bishops and Methodist and Quaker leaders was printed in the Mirror. The letter written in coordination with the charity End Hunger Fast, called on the Prime Minister to act on the “acute moral imperative” to tackle problems of poverty and hunger. The - [Russia and the Ukraine: Violations and justifications](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/03/10/russia-ukraine-violations-justifications/) - The highest codification of International Law, The UN Charter, expressly states in Article 2(4) that the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of another state is unlawful. The only use of force allowable for an independent state under the UN Charter, as outlined in Article 51, are actions taken - [The Future of Scotland: What is the best choice for Scotland?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/03/11/future-scotland-best-choice-scotland/) - As Scots, we love our country and want the very best future for our families, our friends and everyone who lives here. The choice we will take later this year is huge. If we vote to leave the UK, there will be no going back. It is therefore vitally important that we get this decision - [The Future of Scotland: Enhanced devolution is the right path for Scotland](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/03/12/future-scotland-enhanced-devolution-right-path-scotland/) - As we move into the last 200 days before Scotland’s big decision is taken on 18th September, something has happened to the debate in Scotland. Suddenly the volume has been turned up, and uncertainty about the likely result has increased. Everyone, other than rose-tinted bespectacled unionists, knew that the polls would narrow (and they have), - [The Future of Scotland: Aye, naw, maybe](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/03/13/future-scotland-aye-naw-maybe/) - The 'no' scenario supposes that Scotland votes on the 18th of September and we wake up to a bright new world of 'potentially' more devolution, which funnily enough is what the majority of Scots wanted in the first place. We didn't want this political fix and the simplistic approach of a one-question referendum. Why? Because - [The Future of Scotland: A radical shift towards local democracy](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/03/15/future-scotland-radical-shift-towards-local-democracy/) - When the Yes campaign in the Scottish independence referendum campaign launched in May 2012 it invited us all to agree that “I believe that it is fundamentally better for us all, if decisions about Scotland’s future are taken by the people of Scotland.” This is an admirable sentiment. It emphasises a democratic rather than nationalistic - [Budget 2014: More homes please](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/03/17/budget-2014-homes-please/) - The fact is, we’re still not building enough homes. People across the country are struggling to get on the property ladder, move out of their parents’ homes, or find a rental place they can afford. This year’s Budget is an opportunity to change that – and to be smart with the nation’s money into the - [Budget 2014: The decade of Employee Ownership](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/03/18/budget-2014-decade-employee-ownership/) - Employee ownership is the model in which a business is totally or significantly owned by its employees. It already contributes more than £30bn each year to the UK economy, equating to approximately 4% of GDP. The twelve months since the last Budget have been a seminal period in what is undoubtedly the decade of employee - [Budget 2014: What do manufacturers want?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/03/19/budget-2014-manufacturers-want/) - Ahead of today’s budget here is a quick recap of the economic environment and EEF’s key Budget asks that would reconfirm to manufacturers that a competitive business environment is front and centre of the government’s priorities. In recent quarters economic indicators have continued to improve. The outlook for 2014 is positive and manufacturers are gearing - [Tax: The last corporate taboo?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/03/21/tax-last-corporate-taboo/) - A day in the life of a corporate social responsibility professional would unearth a whole gambit of complex and disparate issues they must work through. Human rights, ecological degradation, fair trade, child labour, charity fundraising, sweatshops, supplier relations and anti-bribery strategies are to name but a few. But while the internal influence of “CSR leaders” - [Empowering communities via complementary currencies](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/04/10/empowering-communities-via-complementary-currencies/) - The current economic situation is often identified as the most cataclysmic financial predicament since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Most analysts strongly agree that traditional banking is no longer sufficient for the general public, and an ethical model for banking is required that can empower the more vulnerable elements within our society. Complementary currencies - [Capital (and income) in the 21st century](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/04/29/capital-income-21st-century/) - Thomas Piketty’s magnum opus Capital in the 21st Century, with its charge that inequality in much of the Western world is reaching Victorian levels, has rightly pushed the subject to the top of the political agenda. Coincidentally, with the publication of a discussion note by the IMF showing that reducing inequality not only doesn’t harm - [Machopolitik: Why America still needs a strategic Britain](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/05/13/machopolitik-america-still-needs-strategic-britain/) - Alphen, Netherlands. 12 May. Seventy years ago to the day on 6 June 61,715 British troops landed on the Normandy beaches alongside 57,500 Americans and some 21,500 Canadians. The liberation of Western Europe from Nazism had begun. On 9 May, as President Putin enjoyed his ‘Triumph’ in annexed Crimea and on what the Russians call - [A&E: Facts from the front line](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/05/22/ae-facts-front-line/) - A joint report by Candesic and the College of Emergency Medicine (CEM) analysed over 3,000 patient records who visited twelve Emergency Departments (A&Es) across the country and found that most people (85%) who attended A&E needed to be seen in an emergency setting. This number is different from the number that NHS England based their - [Re-evaluating the Greenbelt will deliver more homes](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/05/27/re-evaluating-greenbelt-will-deliver-homes/) - Mark Carney’s comments on the dysfunctionality of our housing market are only the latest in a long line of warnings about our incapacity to increase housing supply. Indeed it has been a matter of concern for at least thirty years with the problem worsening with every boom and bust cycle. Expanding supply will have relatively - [Queen's Speech 2014: The proposed Recall Bill will do little to strengthen the accountability of MPs](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/06/02/queens-speech-2014-proposed-recall-bill-will-little-strengthen-accountability-mps/) - This week’s Queen’s Speech will see the Government finally announce their intention to bring forward for debate the long awaited Recall Bill. This should be an opportunity for the Government to propose a simple mechanism to empower voters with the right to recall an MP who no longer commands the majority of their constituents’ confidence. - [Queen’s Speech 2014: Will the Transparency Reforms really bring more control and greater scrutiny?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/06/03/queens-speech-2014-will-transparency-reforms-really-bring-control-greater-scrutiny/) - The nature of company ownership can be a murky business. Obscure structures and impenetrable trails of paperwork can often keep the public in the dark over who’s really in charge of the 3 million firms registered in the UK. Vince Cable has announced the establishment of a company ownership register to be included in Wednesday’s - [Can our generation save rural heritage in Europe?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/06/08/can-generation-save-rural-heritage-europe/) - This year FRH Europe’s international conference is on the subject of rural historic churches, synagogues, chapels and other places of worship and their relevance to 21st Century communities. It’s an important time to be thinking about this because thousands of these buildings across Europe are at risk of being lost forever. The reasons are many: - [The explosive growth in medical tourism](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/06/09/explosive-growth-medical-tourism/) - Medical tourism, when people travel to another country to obtain medical treatment, is not a new concept. The first record of medical tourism dates back thousands of years to when pilgrims travelled to the Saronic Gulf in Greece. Today, medical tourism is a multibillion pound market predicted to grow a further 20% in 2014 and - [The Sharing Economy: Using Technology to Change the World](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/06/10/sharing-economy-using-technology-change-world/) - Identified by TIME Magazine as ‘one of the 10 Ideas that will change the world’, hailed by the Economist as a big trend with ‘immense potential’ and cited by Forbes as a new ‘disruptive economic force’; there’s no question that the Sharing Economy is making waves. Back in 2011 when I founded The People Who - [Creating apps to combat mental health](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/06/11/creating-apps-combat-mental-health/) - Mental health problems affect 1 in 4 of us during our lifetimes. The World Health Organisation estimates that around the world approximately five hundred million people are diagnosed with depression, anxiety and related disorders every year. Only 1 in 3 people seek help and their options are limited. In countries with a national health service - [Healthcare must embrace digital methods of delivery](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/06/12/healthcare-must-embrace-digital-methods-delivery/) - In the 19th century four musicians could beautifully play a Beethoven string quartet for their audience. The same is of course true today. However, today the musicians will be paid much more for their time. The quartet are unable to increase their productivity as they cannot play the piece faster but at the same time - [Community power can revolutionise our energy system](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/06/25/community-power-can-revolutionise-energy-system/) - As the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has made clear, we urgently need to change how we generate, use and think about energy. Pressures brought on by the need to mitigate climate change, increasing energy demands and energy security concerns require that we move towards a decarbonised and more efficient system. As more people - [Reciprocity: A foundation of financial economics](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/07/04/reciprocity-foundation-financial-economics/) - Both UK and US legislators have highlighted a degradation in commercial ethics as a significant cause of financial crises since 2007. This might suggest that mathematics has a limited role in addressing the problems the crises have thrown up. I was the RCUK Academic Fellow in Financial Mathematics between 2006 and 2011 and my experience, - [We Need a Stronger Carbon Price to Justify Shale](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/07/15/need-stronger-carbon-price-justify-shale/) - Much is being written about shale gas, both in its favour and against. The main controversies concern its impact on the local environmental. Like all big developments, shale gas exploration imposes costs, risks and disturbances on local communities. But there is also the question of how developing new fossil fuel reserves can be squared with - [Seizing Sevastopol: What to do with Russia's French Warships?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/07/23/seizing-sevastopol-russias-french-warships/) - Alphen, Netherlands. 23 July. Predictably the EU fell apart yesterday over what to do about Russia. Naturally, they all pretended otherwise but the only winner yesterday was President Putin. There was a motley extension to the motley collection of asset freezes and travel bans and some talk of future sanctions covering the energy, financial services - [2.1, 2.2, too much debt: Student loans are turning up the heat on the economy](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/07/28/2-1-2-2-much-debt-student-loans-turning-heat-economy/) - We’re all glad to see the summer and none more so than the university graduates of 2014; mortarboards on heads and scrolls in hand, for them it marks the end of struggling to stay awake in lectures, of facing the horror of a blank page perilously close to an essay deadline, of sitting another exam. - [Help To Build...Voter Support by 2015](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/08/01/help-build-voter-support-2015/) - The shortage of homes, in particular affordable housing, will be one of the key issues deciding the next General Election. Labour has already taken the initiative; Shadow Housing Minister Emma Reynolds’s speech in Nottingham yesterday reaffirmed Labour’s commitment to house-building. With the Government’s flagship policy, Help to Buy, failing to increase homeownership past the levels - [Where the State’s Writ Does Not Run](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/08/01/states-writ-run/) - We have the first new consolidated Co-operatives Act in the UK for nearly fifty years. With our technical input, lobbying by co-ops and mutuals, ResPublica and the Conservative Co-operative Movement, plus support from across the political spectrum and preparatory work by the Law Commission, the Coalition Government has made UK a better place people who - [How SMS texting can help local and global communities overcome a variety of problems](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/08/06/sms-texting-can-help-local-global-communities-overcome-variety-problems/) - Local communities around the world face a variety of problems both domestically and globally. As a result they are continuously looking for cost effective and efficient solutions whilst simultaneously ensuring sufficient accountability and transparency. The original concept of SMS texting was devised over twenty years ago by Freidhelm Hillebrand in his home town of Bonn, - [The Bankers' Oath: Honesty, integrity, and ethics'](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/08/07/bankers-oath-honesty-integrity-ethics/) - Honesty, integrity, and ethics – would you feel comfortable using these words to describe the banking and finance industry? In Australia, the answer would probably be ‘no’. Despite the fact that the Australian banking and finance industry had fared better than most following the Global Financial Crisis, it was evident that the dominant public response - [We need to employ preventative strategies to save our NHS](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/08/08/need-employ-preventative-strategies-save-nhs/) - It is widely agreed that the NHS is in the midst of a crisis. As a result of Government funding pressures and a rise in complex and long-term conditions, the NHS faces a potential affordability gap of £30 billion by the end of the decade. An issue at the forefront of the political agenda, policy - [We must control fugitive emissions to make sure shale gas really is cleaner](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/08/08/must-control-fugitive-emissions-make-sure-shale-gas-really-cleaner/) - As Sam Fankhauser has said elsewhere on this blog, natural gas will be a useful ‘bridge’ fuel in our transition away from coal and oil, and could balance the intermittent supply from renewables by providing a more adaptable form of electricity supply. There is no doubt that gas is cleaner in combustion than coal and - [Licence to Print: An alternative to press regulation](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/08/14/licence-print-alternative-press-regulation/) - Is journalism a profession or a trade? Either way, should professional journalists, who seek to earn their living from the reporting of news and current affairs, be required to hold some form of accredited licence? I once raised this possibility at an informal meeting in a committee room in the House of Commons, and was - [The West Needs an Indirect Approach to the Middle East](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/08/15/west-needs-indirect-approach-middle-east/) - T.E. Lawrence wrote, “In fifty words: granted mobility, security in the form of denying targets to the enemy, time and doctrine (the idea to convert every subject to friendliness), victory will rest with the insurgents, for the algebraic factors in the end are decisive, and against then perfection of means and spirit struggle quite in - [The West's Retreat from Humanitarianism](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/08/19/wests-retreat-humanitarianism/) - Today is World Humanitarian Day. The event commemorates the 19 August 2003 bombing of the UN Headquarters in Baghdad. Among the dead was the UN’s top envoy Sergio Viera de Mello with whom I had spent a day in Geneva shortly before he left for Iraq. Last week UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon published a report - [Is it Groundhog Day for British Banking?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/08/19/groundhog-day-british-banking/) - After the debilitating financial crisis, the opprobrium heaped upon bankers and taxpayers obliged to bail out the banks, you would be forgiven in thinking that the banking sector was now open, transparent and offering good deals to customers. After all, surely bankers would not again risk the wrath of customers, politicians and regulators following the - [Repositioning Islamic finance as a grassroots international business catalyst](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/08/22/repositioning-islamic-finance-grassroots-international-business-catalyst/) - London has raised its flag as a hub for Islamic finance. A clear signal of intent was outlined at the 9th World Islamic Economic Forum (WIEF), held in London towards the end of 2013, by David Cameron, Baroness Warsi, and Boris Johnson. Notably, this was the first time that WIEF had ventured outside of the - [Destructive Ambiguity: Why European Defence needs a re-think](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/08/26/destructive-ambiguity-european-defence-needs-re-think/) - Last week German TV programme Monitor on Das Erste ran a piece on NATO. Central to the ten minute report was my latest NATO Defence College/Wilton Park report “NATO’s Post-2014 Strategic Narrative”. Apparently the aim of my report is to turn Russia into an enemy as part of a conscious and aggressive NATO plan to - [Is journalism dead, or merely dying?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/08/27/journalism-dead-merely-dying/) - Above and beyond the knotty question of how best to regulate newspapers, as well as how to preserve the freedom of the press, possibly by turning our attention to individual journalists, through some form of licensing, lurk two bigger issues. First, what journalism is for in a modern world. And whether in fact, as a - [Join Me Up Scotty: Shifting from the National to the Local](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/09/17/join-scotty-shifting-national-local/) - Over the past few decades, our friends north of the border have often experimented with various innovative policy approaches – though never before on quite such significant issues as devolution, self-determination and democracy itself – providing a testing ground for ideas which sometimes then spread more widely across the UK. Whatever the future of the - [A new democracy in a new Britain? – a view from Leeds](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/09/25/new-democracy-new-britain-view-leeds/) - I have been very excited by the way in which the Scottish referendum campaign engaged people in a discussion about feelings of powerlessness and how to regain democratic control over decisions about their lives made by a centralised and seemingly unaccountable London-centric elite. In particular, I think that we must harness that energy to build - [Why Go to War? Because We are All Human and All Humans are Sacred](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/09/25/go-war-human-humans-sacred/) - On 3rd September at Westminster Abbey’s memorial to the Innocent Victims of War, representatives of the three faiths of the Book, Christians, Jews and Muslims (Sunni and Shiah) gathered beneath a banner stating “We are all Human”. They met to hold a vigil for those who are victims of the inhuman outrages committed by Islamic - [The legacy of the Second Baldwin Government](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/10/06/legacy-second-baldwin-government/) - For British Conservatives, this November marks an important milestone in the history of the Conservative Party; the 90th anniversary of the election of the second Conservative administration of Stanley Baldwin. Although the Labour Party is widely acclaimed for landmarks in social policy such as the creation of the postwar Welfare State, Conservative administrations have also - [Can we own how devolution affects our area?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/10/14/can-devolution-affects-area/) - Sometimes I get very frustrated by the BBC. Like when it puts rugby league highlights on at 1pm on a Tuesday. Or 3am on a Wednesday. But it's hard to ignore, hard to get away from. Even for those who have made deliberate decisions to avoid a particular media source (such as those angry at - [The Future of the United Kingdom is Based on Devolution](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/10/14/future-united-kingdom-based-devolution/) - The fantastic democratic adventure in Scotland has given us a real opportunity to reform our system of government and to shape the future of the United Kingdom so that it is founded on the principles of union and devolution, rather than on massive over-centralisation. The union party, leaders need to seize the opportunity with a - [Devolution for Greater Manchester](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/10/14/devolution-greater-manchester/) - Respublica recently published its report calling for Greater Manchester to have control over the £22 billion it spends each year on public services, with accompanying financial flexibilities. The report reasons that if you give Manchester the ability to target spend and redesign services as best fit its residents’ needs, then it will be able to - [Devolution for the UK!](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/10/14/devolution-uk/) - It's coming sometime, maybe. A devolution revolution is taking place across the kingdom. It’s not just Scotland. Manchester is mad for it too. And just about everywhere else. "We have heard the voice of Scotland and now the millions of voices of England must be heard" the Prime Minister declared as he hailed the outcome - [The English Question: A Bluffer’s Guide](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/10/14/english-question-bluffers-guide/) - Devolution to Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland throws up related questions about the government of England. These fall into two broad kinds: giving England a stronger political voice; and devolving power within England. To rebalance the Union, England could find a stronger political voice through an English Parliament, or English votes on English laws. - [Ebola: WHO is in Charge?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/10/21/ebola-charge/) - Alphen, Netherlands. 20 October. As EU foreign ministers finally meet to discuss the Ebola epidemic and Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf makes a desperate open plea to the world to get its act together the disease is taking hold. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) more than 4500 people have already died of Ebola - [How do you Solve a Problem like Fuel Poverty?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/10/23/solve-problem-like-fuel-poverty/) - The last conference season before the General Election brings with it a flurry of policies, as parties position themselves for the months to come. Top lines spell out top priorities and we see the first glimpses of Governments post-May 2015. Fuel poverty is an issue which I saw the Labour Party aim to address, with - [Towards a more sophisticated debate on payday loans](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/10/24/towards-sophisticated-debate-payday-loans/) - The debate around payday lending in the UK can often seem very black and white. For a long time, when covered in the mainstream press, much focus was put on APR. Over time, however, most have accepted that APR figures are all but meaningless when applied to short-term loans. There has been a richer debate - [Why ‘English votes’ is the wrong response to the Scottish referendum](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/10/28/english-votes-wrong-response-scottish-referendum/) - Former Welsh Secretary Ron Davies predicted in 1999 that devolution would prove to be “a process, not an event”, and the aftermath of the Scottish referendum proves again the accuracy of that assessment. The idea of ‘English votes for English laws’ (EVEL) at Westminster has been put forward by the Prime Minister, as a solution - [The triple whammy that cripples our public services](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/11/05/triple-whammy-cripples-public-services/) - A favourite game is the one where you ask friends which of our current practices will look most ridiculous and unacceptable in 50 years’ time. In other words, what will be the early 21st century’s equivalent of slavery? The usual answer is some aspect of our devastation of the environment or our seeming acceptance of - [Regulating Banks VS Regulating Bankers](https://www.respublica.org.uk/disraeli-room-post/2014/11/17/regulating-banks-vs-regulating-bankers/) - As argued in ResPublica’s previous report, Virtuous Banking, [1] our financial bodies have the potential to be among society’s most transformative institutions. By placing ethos and purpose at the heart of finance, our financial institutions would be able to reclaim their civic purpose and begin again to promote growth and empower their communities and society. ## Press Centre - [Junior workers expect more pay for onsite roles and want ‘best of both’ working styles, finds new global study](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/press-releases/junior-workers-expect-more-pay-for-onsite-roles-and-want-best-of-both-working-styles-finds-new-global-study/) - BSI’s 2025 Global Workforce Entrants Study explores the experiences and priorities of people who have entered the workforce since the pandemic began An estimated 200 million people worldwide will have started their careers since 2020[i], forming a hybrid generation with limited experience of the pre-pandemic workplace Work-life balance is the top factor motivating them in - [Food security, accessibility, and sustainability should be categorised as a public good](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/press-releases/food-security-accessibility-and-sustainability-should-be-categorised-as-a-public-good/) - Food security, accessibility, and sustainability should be categorised as a public good says new report by the Lifelong Education Institute The Lifelong Education Institute’s latest report ‘Hungry to Learn: Lifelong Learning Pathways for the Agri-food Sector’ raises concerns over the neglected potential of the agri-food sector in the UK, and especially around the gap - [THINK TANK CALLS FOR A BEHAVIOUR REVOLUTION IN SCHOOLS](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/press-releases/think-tank-calls-for-a-behaviour-revolution-in-schools/) - A new report, Behaving to Learn, by the think tank ResPublica challenges the Government to be bold and drive a revolution in behaviour management across state schools to improve the outcomes for children and the lives of teachers. ResPublica argues the solutions are already out there. Some of the best performing state schools in the country are non-selective - [New collection of essays by Conservative MPs offers fresh ideas for tackling poverty across the UK](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/press-releases/new-collection-of-essays-by-conservative-mps-offers-fresh-ideas-for-tackling-poverty-across-the-uk/) - PRESS RELEASE EMBARGOED | 24th MAY 2023 00:01 For Media Enquires please contact mike.mavrommatis@respublica.org.uk New collection of essays by Conservative MPs offers fresh ideas for tackling poverty across the UK A new book published by the think-tank ResPublica and supported by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has collected and recommended a range of new policies - [Playing by The Rules | Press Release](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/press-releases/new-independent-regulator-needed-to-protect-english-football-clubs-and-give-working-class-fans-a-greater-voice/) - PRESS RELEASE New independent regulator needed to protect English football clubs and give working-class fans a greater voice Ahead of the much-anticipated publication of the Government White Paper on the creation of a new independent regulator for English football (IREF), think-tank ResPublica warns that it must not be an ‘owners’ and directors’ charter’ and must - [How smart solar at scale can power UK’s economic recovery](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/press-releases/how-smart-solar-at-scale-can-power-uks-economic-recovery/) - In its latest report, ‘Smart Solar at Scale: Meeting the UK’s net-zero emissions and clean growth targets’, ResPublica argues that the energy sector can play a central role in powering the UK’s economic recovery, post-Covid-19. The report makes the case for scaling up the development and implementation of smart solar and battery storage technologies to - [ResPublica Report | Size doesn’t matter, small places must not be left behind in the devolution process.](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/press-releases/size-doesnt-matter-small-places-must-not-be-left-behind-in-the-devolution-process/) - The Government’s focus on metro-regions has meant that mid-sized cities, towns, districts, and counties have been locked-out of the devolution process. In a new report, ResPublica argues that there is little evidence to indicate the optimal footprint for local government or for the delivery of public services in England. The policy implication is that a - [Phillip Blond on LBC with Shelagh Fogarty](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/phillip-blond-on-lbc-with-shelagh-fogarty/) - Listen to Shelagh Fogart from LBC, interviewing ResPublica's Director, Phillip Blond, on the need to reform NHS Services. - [ResPublica Report | How to improve the Health and Wellbeing of the UK population](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/press-releases/how-to-improve-the-health-and-wellbeing-of-the-uk-population/) - A new report launched today by the independent think tank ResPublica, set out how we can properly refigure our public health system in the light of its successes and failings in the Covid-19 epidemic. 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Our series of seminal reports paved the way for the current devolution deals. Today we work with cities and counties around the UK to help them embrace place-based public policy. To find out more, please contact us. Subscribe to our mailing list - [Poultry sector warning over cheap imports | The Scottish Farmer](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/poultry-sector-warning-over-cheap-imports-the-scottish-farmer/) - [Councils urged to provide place-based credit building and salary-linked loans | Public Sector Executive](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/councils-urged-to-provide-place-based-credit-building-and-salary-linked-loans-public-sector-executive/) - [Councils urged to offer staff low interest loans | LocalGov](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/councils-urged-to-offer-staff-low-interest-loans-localgov/) - [Employers should be encouraged to offer workers the chance to consolidate high-interest loans and credit card debts into low-interest schemes deducted directly from their salaries | The Times (£)](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/employers-should-be-encouraged-to-offer-workers-the-chance-to-consolidate-high-interest-loans-and-credit-card-debts-into-low-interest-schemes-deducted-directly-from-their-salaries-the-times/) - [‘Unleash’ salary-linked lending to build credit scores in disadvantaged communities | 24housing](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/unleash-salary-linked-lending-to-build-credit-scores-in-disadvantaged-communities-24housing/) - [Unleash salary-linked lending to end punitive borrowing costs and build credit scores in our most disadvantaged communities, says top think tank](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/press-releases/unleash-salary-linked-lending-to-end-punitive-borrowing-costs-and-build-credit-scores-in-our-most-disadvantaged-communities-says-top-think-tank/) - All public-sector and large private sector employers should adopt salary-linked lending and savings systems and promote financial education in the workplace. A shift of £10 billion of lending - about 5 per cent of the UK’s total consumer debt - from other forms of credit to salary-linked loans would reduce debt service costs by around - [No-deal Brexit will force poorer people to eat low-quality foreign meat, ministers warned | The Independent](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/no-deal-brexit-will-force-poorer-people-to-eat-low-quality-foreign-meat-ministers-warned-the-independent/) - [Poultry Meat after Brexit | BBC Farming Today](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/no-deal-food-hierarchy-warning-issued-to-government-2-2-2-2-2-2/) - [Brexit risks creating a 'two-tier food system between rich and poor' | FarmingUK](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/no-deal-food-hierarchy-warning-issued-to-government-2-2-2-2-2/) - [The Yorkshire Post says: Concerns grow over no-deal Brexit](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/no-deal-food-hierarchy-warning-issued-to-government-2-2-2-2/) - [No-deal Brexit risks flood of imported chicken | Farmers Weekly](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/no-deal-food-hierarchy-warning-issued-to-government-2-2-2/) - [No-deal Brexit risks creating ‘two-tier’ food system for rich and poor | Farmers Guardian](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/no-deal-food-hierarchy-warning-issued-to-government-2-2/) - [Rev up marketing to make most of no-deal Brexit | Poultry World](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/no-deal-food-hierarchy-warning-issued-to-government-2/) - [No-deal food hierarchy warning issued to Government | Food Manufacture](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/no-deal-food-hierarchy-warning-issued-to-government/) - [Press Release: Brexit risks creating a dangerous two-tier food system between rich and poor, warns a major new report](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/press-releases/6364/) - Brexit risks creating a dangerous two-tier food system between rich and poor, warns a major new report Current high welfare standards could be compromised by cheaper imports Curbs to migration could drive up labour costs by a half Public procurement policy should help schools and hospitals buy British A no deal Brexit risks creating a - [How cynical gambling giants keep online punters hooked | Tom Witherow](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/how-cynical-gambling-giants-keep-online-punters-hooked-tom-witherow/) - [Press Release - Online Gambling: Addicted to Addiction](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/press-releases/press-release-online-gambling-addicted-to-addiction/) - More than half of the online profits generated by gaming companies operating in the UK come from problem and at risk gamblers, warns a major new report from ResPublica. The think-tank, which championed the lowering the maximum stake for Fixed Odds Betting Terminals (FOBTs) has previously put forward proposals to curb advertising by betting firms. - [There’s ingenuity behind Apple’s great success. 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The think-tank, ResPublica, which successfully campaigned for lowering the maximum stake to £2 for Fixed Odds Betting Terminals (FOBTs), says that the Government needs to go much further than this “one - [ResPublica's Phillip Blond responds to the Government's FOBT announcement](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/press-releases/respublicas-phillip-blond-responds-governments-fobt-announcement/) - ResPublica warmly welcomes the Government’s decision to slash the maximum Fixed Odds Betting Terminal stake to £2, but urges them to go further Phillip Blond, Director, ResPublica commented: “We warmly welcome the Government’s decision to slash the maximum fixed odds betting terminal (FOBTs) stake to just £2. 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The below is an English translation of an article which appeared in Le Figaro - France's oldest national daily Q: Four months after the EU referendum, the "Apocalypse" announced by most of the proponents of "Remain" did not happen. What are the first consequences of this political earthquake? 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ResPublica, which has been widely credited with setting the devolution - [LBC: Phillip Blond on David Cameron's resignation](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/lbc-phillip-blond-david-camerons-resignation/) - [Britain After Brexit](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/news/britain-after-brexit/) - The outcome of the referendum was based on more than a simple decision to Remain or Leave; it was also underpinned by a sense of loss of control and neglect, fear of the impacts of globalisation, and a distrust that our political system could truly serve the poor and those outside London. We believe that - [Fears businesses could ditch Greater Manchester after Brexit vote](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/fears-businesses-ditch-greater-manchester-brexit-vote/) - [Brexit and the unexpected rise of Eurosceptic Boris Johnson](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/brexit-unexpected-rise-eurosceptic-boris-johnson/) - Tom Follett speaks to the Daily Star Lebanon on the EU referendum - [Bloomberg: Phillip Blond on the Brexit Debate](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bloomberg-phillip-blond-brexit-debate/) - ['Failing to the point of collapse': Phillip Blond on the crisis in health and care](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/failing-point-collapse-phillip-blond-crisis-health-care/) - [Roy Greenslade on 'The Mission of Media in an Age of Monopoly'](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/roy-greenslade-mission-media-age-monopoly/) - [BBC Radio 4 Today Programme: Dr Justin Schlosberg on our new media essay](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bbc-radio-4-today-programme-dr-justin-schlosberg-new-media-essay/) - [Press Release: The Mission of Media in an Age of Monopoly](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/press-releases/press-release-mission-media-age-monopoly/) - GOOGLE TAX NEEDED TO MAKE SOCIAL MEDIA PAY FOR NEWS Strict embargo: 00:01 26th May 2016 Google should be made to pay for the news it takes from other media outlets and promotes on its own website, independent think tank ResPublica has found. In a ResPublica essay Virtuous Media: How to improve plurality - [Whitehall’s attitude to St Ives’ poll shows little regard for localism](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/whitehalls-attitude-st-ives-poll-shows-little-regard-localism/) - [Let’s cut funding for wasteful arts degrees to support apprenticeships properly](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/lets-cut-funding-wasteful-arts-degrees-support-apprenticeships-properly/) - [Edward Douglas on the case for remain](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/edward-douglas-case-remain/) - The below is an English translation of an article which appeared in Naftemporiki - Greece's biggest financial newspaper The most likely outcome on 23 June – Britain’s first vote on its EU membership since 1975 – is a vote for the status quo. Most polls show voters want to stay in – the Remain camp - [CityMetric: Edward Douglas on the potential of Part-Fab](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/citymetric-edward-douglas-potential-part-fab/) - [BBC 5 Live: Phillip Blond on the junior doctors' strike](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bbc-5-live-phillip-blond-junior-doctors-strike/) - [de Volksrant interviews Phillip Blond](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/de-volksrant-interviews-phillip-blond/) - -- The below is an English translation of the original Dutch article-- The government preaches the participation society. But two working class neighborhoods experience how narrow the margins are. Bea Moed could hardly believe her eyes when she read the letter. Yet it was there: she was as an independent community worker no longer allowed - [BBC Breakfast: Phillip Blond paper review](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bbc-breakfast-phillip-blond-paper-review/) - [LBC: Phillip Blond on the British political system](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/lbc-phillip-blond-british-political-system/) - [Bloomberg TV: Phillip Blond on Brexit](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bloomberg-tv-phillip-blond/) - [LBC: Phillip Blond on the junior doctors' strike](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/lbc-phillip-blond-junior-doctors-strike/) - [Devolution: City United](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/devolution-city-united/) - [Tom Follett on business rates change in Budget 2016](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/tom-follett-business-rates-change-budget-2016/) - [High-speed rail: Phillip Blond responds to Budget 2016](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/high-speed-rail-phillip-blond-responds-budget-2016/) - [Think tank calls for Northern Teaching Premium](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/think-tank-calls-northern-teaching-premium/) - [Welsh Assembly report endorses our energy efficiency proposals](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/news/welsh-assembly-report-endorses-energy-efficiency-proposals/) - See the full report here - [17 reasons Liverpool needs a high speed rail link](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/17-reasons-liverpool-needs-high-speed-rail-link/) - [Care After Cure analysis on BBC Radio 5 Live](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/care-cure-analysis-bbc-radio-5-live/) - [Bed blocking is a growing problem](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bed-blocking-growing-problem/) - [NHS facing £3bn bill for bed blocking](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/nhs-facing-3bn-bill-bed-blocking/) - [Delayed transfers in England a growing problem](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/delayed-transfers-england-growing-problem/) - [NHS 'will waste £3.3 billion over next five years on bed blocking'](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/nhs-will-waste-3-3-billion-next-five-years-bed-blocking/) - [Care After Cure in Mail Online](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/care-cure-mail-online/) - [Bed Blocking crisis to cost NHS £3.3 billion in next five years](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bed-blocking-crisis-cost-nhs-3-3-billion-next-five-years/) - [Care homes 'could solve NHS bed-blocking'](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/care-homes-solve-nhs-bed-blocking/) - [Press Release: Care After Cure](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/press-releases/press-release-care-cure/) - The NHS is going to waste £3.3 billion caring for patients who don’t need medical treatment but the money would be better spent on a Fast Track Discharge Fund to move vulnerable older people into care homes, according to a report from the independent think tank ResPublica. In Care after cure: creating a fast - [Phillip Blond on the need for Liverpool's high speed link](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/phillip-blond-need-liverpools-high-speed-link/) - [Ticket to Ride on ITV1 Granada](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/ticket-ride-itv1-granada/) - [BBC North West on Ticket to Ride](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bbc-north-west-ticket-ride/) - [Liverpool, Hull and Newcastle 'left behind' without HS2](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/liverpool-hull-newcastle-left-behind-without-hs2/) - [Liverpool could be first UK city to pay billions for HS2 link, says report](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/liverpool-first-uk-city-pay-billions-hs2-link-says-report/) - [Liverpool 'needs high speed rail link to HS2'](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/liverpool-needs-high-speed-rail-link-hs2/) - [Think tank says Liverpool must get HS2 if the Northern Powerhouse is to succeed](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/think-tank-says-liverpool-must-get-hs2-northern-powerhouse-succeed/) - [Liverpool presses to part-fund HS2 extension](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/liverpool-presses-part-fund-hs2-extension/) - [Liverpool offers £2bn to be included in HS2 network](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/liverpool-offers-2bn-included-hs2-network/) - [Report claims Liverpool set to lose without high speed rail link](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/report-claims-liverpool-set-lose-without-high-speed-rail-link/) - [Press Release: Ticket to Ride](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/press-releases/press-release-ticket-ride/) - [Bloomberg: Phillip Blond discusses Brexit](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bloomberg-phillip-blond-discusses-brexit/) - [BBC Radio 5 Live: Phillip Blond on the junior doctors' strike](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bbc-radio-5-live-phillip-blond-junior-doctors-stirke/) - [BBC Radio Manchester: Care Collapse discussed by our Director](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bbc-radio-manchester-care-collapse-discussed-director/) - [The New Statesman: Caroline Julian on the value of beauty](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/new-statesman-caroline-julian-value-beauty/) - [City Metric: Tom Follett on land tax devolution](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/city-metric-tom-follett-land-tax-devolution/) - ['Excellent' ResPublica report cited in care homes debate](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/excellent-respublica-report-cited-care-homes-debate/) - [ResPublica's call for the transformation of sink estates into beautiful places adopted by the Prime Minister](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/news/government-adopts-respublicas-proposal-easier-access-urban-beauty/) - This week, the Prime Minister announced that some of the UK’s least attractive housing estates are to be torn down and replaced with attractive, safe homes: a move we called for in our Community Right to Beauty report. The scheme is set to be part of a series of measures to improve the life chances of the most - [ResPublica trustee John Milbank on democracy and mixed government](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/respublica-trustee-john-milbank-democracy-mixed-government/) - [LBC: Peter Wilding on the paper review](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/lbc-peter-wilding-paper-review/) - [The Care Collapse extensively cited in Lords debate](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/care-collapse-extensively-cited-lords-debate/) - [Lord Bilimoria cites 'Make or Break' in Parliament](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/news/lord-bilimoria-cites-make-break-parliament/) - Lord Bilimoria (CB): My Lords, Britain has less than 1% of the world’s population and represents just 4% of the world’s GDP, and yet it makes up 7% of the world’s welfare spending. There is no question that the Budget deficit needs to be cut and that the Chancellor needs to balance the books, even if - [BBC Radio 4: Phillip Blond on our 'Make or Break' launch](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bbc-radio-4-phillip-blond-make-break-launch/) - [Bloomberg: Phillip Blond on Europe's response to the Paris attacks](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bloomberg-phillip-blond-europes-response-paris-attacks/) - [Sky News: Phillip Blond on the resignation of Grant Shapps](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/sky-news-phillip-blond-resignation-grant-shapps/) - [City AM on our 'Make or Break' report](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/city-make-break-report/) - [Press Release: Make or Break](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/press-releases/press-release-make-break/) - MANUFACTURING REVOLUTION NEEDED FOR STRONGER ECONOMY A huge increase in exports is needed to get British manufacturing back on its feet and move the economy away from a dangerous over-reliance on service industries, a detailed new report from the independent think tank ResPublica has found. In ‘Make or Break: Why Britain needs a manufacturing resurgence - [BBC Radio 5 Live: Phillip Blond on the junior doctors' strike](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bbc-radio-5-live-phillip-blond-junior-doctors-strike/) - [BBC Merseyside: Phillip Blond on the devolution announcement](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bbc-merseyside-phillip-blond-devolution-announcement/) - [Shadow Health Minister cites Care Collapse in debate](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/news/shadow-health-minister-cites-care-collapse-debate/) - Barbara Keeley (Worsley and Eccles South) (Lab): The ResPublica report, “The Care Collapse”, states that our residential care sector is in crisis. It says: “Providers are being faced with an unsustainable combination of declining real terms funding, rising demand for their services, and increasing financial liabilities.” It also so states that a £1 billion funding gap in - [BBC Radio 5 Live: Phillip Blond on budget pressures for GPs](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bbc-radio-5-live-phillip-blond-on-budget-pressures-for-gps/) - [BBC Radio 4: The Today programme on our Care Collapse report](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bbc-radio-4-the-today-programme-on-our-care-collapse-report/) - [The Times: Care home crisis to cost NHS billions](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/the-times-care-home-crisis-to-cost-nhs-billions/) - [Daily Express: Care home closures to burden NHS](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/daily-express-care-home-closures-to-burden-nhs/) - [Independent: Richer pensioners protected at expense of those in need](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/independent-richer-pensioners-protected-at-expense-of-those-in-need/) - [RT: Report says 37,000 care beds to go by 2020](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/rt-report-says-37000-care-beds-to-go-by-2020/) - [The Week: Living Wage to cause care home crisis](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/the-week-living-wage-to-cause-care-home-crisis/) - [Guardian: UK care home sector could lose 10% of beds in 5 years](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/guardian-uk-care-home-sector-could-lose-10-of-beds-in-5-years/) - [ITV News: New report warns NHS faces £3bn cost](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/itv-news-new-report-warns-nhs-faces-3bn-cost/) - [Telegraph: NHS facing 37,000-strong influx of elderly](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/telegraph-nhs-facing-37000-strong-influx-of-elderly/) - [Independent: Care home cash crisis](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/independent-care-home-cash-crisis/) - [Press Release: The Care Collapse](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/press-releases/press-release-the-care-collapse/) - The NHS faces a £3 billion bill as residential care homes shut their doors forcing hospitals to care for the elderly, according to a report from the independent think tank ResPublica. In The Care Collapse: The imminent crisis in residential care and its impact on the NHS ResPublica says within 5 years residential care homes - [BBC Merseyside: Phillip Blond on the junior doctors crisis](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bbc-merseyside-phillip-blond-on-the-junior-doctors-crisis/) - [LBC: Phillip Blond on discontent over cuts to tax credits](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/lbc-phillip-blond-on-discontent-over-cuts-to-tax-credits/) - [Share Radio: Charter Cities as the answer to the refugee crisis?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/share-radio-charter-cities-as-the-answer-to-the-refugee-crisis/) - [BBC Radio 5: Phillip Blond on the crisis in the NHS](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bbc-radio-5-phillip-blond-on-the-crisis-in-the-nhs/) - [BBC Radio Merseyside: Phillip Blond on devolution to Liverpool](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bbc-radio-merseyside-phillip-blond-on-devolution-to-liverpool/) - [Phillip Blond discusses the EU Referendum on BBC Radio Leicester](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/phillip-blond-discuss-the-eu-referendum-on-bbc-radio-leicester/) - [LBC: ResPublica's Caroline Julian reviews the papers](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/lbc-respublicas-caroline-julian-reviews-the-papers/) - [BBC Radio 4: Phillip Blond on the return of One Nation Conservatism](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bbc-radio-4-phillip-blond-on-the-return-of-one-nation-conservatism/) - [ResPublica submits evidence to Constitution Committee on devolution](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/news/respublica-submits-evidence-to-constitution-committee-on-devolution/) - See our written evidence here - [The Guardian: ResPublica calls for Land Value Capture](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/the-guardian-respublica-calls-for-land-value-capture/) - [All politics is local](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/all-politics-is-local/) - [Jeremy Hunt calls on the CBeebies to help the government tackle child obesity](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/jeremy-hunt-calls-on-the-cbeebies-to-help-the-government-tackle-child-obesity/) - [English cities get the power to set their own business rates](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/english-cities-get-the-power-to-set-their-own-business-rates/) - [Schools minister Nick Gibb: There has never been a better time to be a teacher](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/schools-minister-nick-gibb-there-has-never-been-a-better-time-to-be-a-teacher/) - [Northern English Labour MPs criticise Corbyn for 'London-focused' speech](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/northern-english-labour-mps-criticise-corbyn-for-london-focused-speech/) - [Smaller cities ‘passed over’ in favour of bigger, poorer ones](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/smaller-cities-passed-over-in-favour-of-bigger-poorer-ones/) - [Thirty years on, how has Thatcher's home ownership dream held up?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/thirty-years-on-how-has-thatchers-home-ownership-dream-held-up/) - [Press Release: A red card for failing public services will help Key Cities succeed](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/press-releases/press-release-a-red-card-for-failing-public-services-will-help-key-cities-succeed/) - Failing centralised public services should be shown the 'red card' and their work should be brought under the control of local communities and councils, independent think tank ResPublica has demanded. In a far reaching new report, The Missing Multipliers: Devolution to Britain's Key Cities, ResPublica outlines a system by which devolved power would see local government - [Press Release: Private renters increase while home ownership flat lines, finds new report](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/press-releases/press-release-private-renters-increase-while-home-ownership-flat-lines-finds-new-report/) - More people are renting their homes from private landlords than ever before, says a detailed new report on ownership in Britain over the last thirty years. It reveals that thirty years ago 61% of the UK’s households owned their own home. The number increased through the 1990s but dropped off from the year 2000 and stands once again - [Press Release: Homeowners need "Help to Improve" energy efficiency loans](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/press-releases/press-release-homeowners-need-help-to-improve-energy-efficiency-loans/) - Homeowners should be offered low interest loans, guaranteed by the government, to pay for energy efficiency improvements to their homes, according to a radical new report from the leading independent think tank ResPublica The innovative report called ‘After the Green Deal: Empowering people and places to improve their homes’ says ‘Help to Improve’ loans would - [LBC: Phillip Blond on David Cameron's plans for greater devolution](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/lbc-phillip-blond-on-david-camerons-plans-for-greater-devolution/) - [BBC Radio 4: Phillip Blond on 'What makes a man'](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bbc-radio-4-phillip-blond-on-what-makes-a-man/) - [ConHome: Beauty for the many not just the few](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/conhome-beauty-for-the-many-not-just-the-few/) - [Professor John Gathergood, author of the report, appeared on Sky News on 11th November to talk about the report's recommendations in the context of the FCA's cap on the total cost of credit](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/professor-john-gathergood-author-report-appeared-sky-news-11th-november-talk-reports-recommendations-context-fcas-cap-total-cost-credit/) - Professor John Gathergood interviewed on Sky News (-1:27). - [Phillip Blond features on BBC Radio 3's 'Free Thinking'](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/3292/) - Our Director, Phillip Blond, was interviewed on BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking, talking about nationalism and cosmopolitanism. In the programme, Culture Wars: Cosmopolitanism v the nation state, Philip Dodd continues his exploration of the culture wars by investigating the tension between cosmopolitanism and the nation state and how this is playing out in Europe. As well as speaking to - [Local job services ‘vital to ensure Universal Credit works’](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/local-job-services-vital-ensure-universal-credit-works/) - Public Finance on ResPublica's report Responsible Recovery. - [Virtuous Banking: Placing ethos and purpose at the heart of finance](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/virtuous-banking-placing-ethos-purpose-heart-finance/) - ResPublica will be launching its latest report: Virtuous Banking: Placing ethos and purpose at the heart of finance on 29 July. - [Phillip Blond on ResPublica's new publication 'Devo Max - Devo Manc: Place-based public services' on BBC Radio 4](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/phillip-blond-respublicas-new-publication-devo-max-devo-manc-place-based-public-services-bbc-radio-4/) - A devolutionary plan for cities, not just Scotland (0:54:40). - [Phillip Blond on the English Question](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/phillip-blond-english-question/) - Phillip Blond interviewed on BBC Radio Scotland (0:10). - [Credit Ladder: John Gathergood features on the Today Programme](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/credit-ladder-john-gathergood-features-today-programme/) - BBC Radio 4 Today Programme. - [Credit Ladder: John Gathergood on BBC Radio 5 Live Breakfast](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/credit-ladder-john-gathergood-bbc-radio-5live-breakfast/) - [2014 Autumn Statement: Phillip Blond on what we can expect](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/2014-autumn-statement-phillip-blond-can-expect/) - [Phillip Blond talks to BBC Radio Merseyside about the Budget 2015](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/phillip-blond-talks-to-bbc-radio-merseyside-about-the-budget-2015/) - Our Director, Phillip Blond, was interviewed on BBC Radio Merseyside's drivetime show with Paul Salt, discussing the Budget and specifically infrastructure in the North. The interview begins at 00:54:00. - [Phillip Blond talks to BBC Radio Manchester about the Budget 2015](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/phillip-blond-talks-to-bbc-radio-manchester-about-the-budget-2015/) - Our Director, Phillip Blond, was interviewed on BBC Radio Manchester discussing the Budget. He spoke to presenter Sam Walker about the announcement that Greater Manchester and other pilot areas will be allowed to retain 100% of any additional growth in business rates above expected forecasts, and also about high-speed rail and infrastructure in the North. - [Back to the Future Politics: Radio 5 Live interviews Phillip Blond](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/back-to-the-future-politics-5live-interviews-phillip-blond/) - Listen to the discussion at 1hr55mins, featuring ResPublica's Director Phillip Blond. - [BBC Radio 4 Today: Phillip Blond & Beth RIgby on the Core Vote Strategy](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bbc-radio-4-today-phillip-blond-beth-rigby-on-the-core-vote-strategy/) - (2hr55mins) Director of ResPublica, Phillip Blond, joins Beth Rigby, Deputy Political Editor of the FT, to discuss the Core Vote Strategy employed by both Labour and the Conservatives. - [BBC Radio Wales: Phillip Blond on the political parties failure to secure a Majority](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bbc-radio-wales-phillip-blond-on-the-political-parties-failure-to-secure-a-majority/) - Phillip Blond, Director of ResPublica, joins BBC Radio Wales to discuss the impending election and the effect of the core vote strategy on the formation of a majority Government. - [BBC Radio 4 Today Programme on our 'Community Right to Beauty' report launch](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bbc-radio-4-today-programme-on-our-community-right-to-beauty-report-launch/) - Dame Fiona Reynolds discusses how our new report 'absolutely hits the nail on the head'. - [RTÉ Ireland: Phillip Blond assesses Fianna Fáil’s current standing on the Claire Byrne Show](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/rte-ireland-phillip-blond-assesses-fianna-fails-current-standing-on-the-claire-byrne-show/) - ResPublica's Phillip Blond assesses Fianna Fáil’s current standing. Our panel – including Niall Collins T.D., Mary O’Rourke, Noel Whelan and Dr Niamh Hourigan – discuss the current state and potential future of the party. - [BBC Radio 4 Today: Manifesto for devolution to Britain's Key Cities](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bbc-radio-4-today-manifesto-for-devolution-to-britains-key-cities/) - [BBC Radio Merseyside: Devolution is the equivalent of a tailored suit](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bbc-radio-merseyside-devolution-is-the-equivalent-of-a-tailored-suit/) - Phillip Blond, Director of ResPublica joins BBC Radio Merseyside to discuss the need for devolution, explaining that devolution enables us to have a tailored suit, as opposed to the off the peg soutions offered by central government. Listen to the discussion at 1hour 10mins. - [Bloomberg TV: The future of the UK after GE2015](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bloomberg-tv-the-future-of-the-uk-after-ge2015/) - The future of the UK after the UK 2015 General Election. Director Phillip Blond joins Guy Johnson on Bloomberg Business TV at for an hour discussion. - [BBC Radio 5 Live: Phillip Blond debates with the Head of the BMA on Jeremy Hunt's 7 day NHS](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bbc-radio-5-live-phillip-blond-bma/) - [BBC Radio 4: Philip Blond on the launch of the Devo Home report](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bbc-radio-4-philip-blond-on-the-launch-of-the-devo-home-report/) - [Deutsche Welle: Phillip Blond on the Calais Migrant Crisis](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/deutsche-welle-phillip-blond-on-the-calais-migrant-crisis/) - [Law Society Gazette: 'Force lawyers to work pro bono' - think tank](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/law-society-gazette-force-lawyers-to-work-pro-bono-think-tank/) - [Planning Resource: Report urges stronger planning emphasis on beauty](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/planning-resource-report-urges-stronger-planning-emphasis-on-beauty/) - [ConHome: Duncan Sim on empowering citizens to promote beauty](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/conhome-duncan-sim-on-empowering-citizens-to-promote-beauty/) - [City AM: You can only enjoy the UK's most beautiful scenery if you earn more than £45,000](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/city-am-you-can-only-enjoy-the-uks-most-beautiful-scenery-if-you-earn-more-than-45000/) - [24Dash: ResPublica calls for a 'Community Right to Beauty'](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/24dash-respublica-calls-for-a-community-right-to-beauty/) - [LocalGov: Urban beauty is being restricted to the rich says think tank](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/localgov-urban-beauty-is-being-restricted-to-the-rich-says-think-tank/) - [National Trust: Beauty as a right not just a privilege](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/national-trust-beauty-as-a-right-not-just-a-privilege/) - [Independent: Poor Britons miss out on beautiful surroundings](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/independent-poor-britons-miss-out-on-beautiful-surroundings/) - [BBC News: UK income levels severely limit access to natural beauty](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bbc-news-uk-income-levels-severely-limit-access-to-natural-beauty/) - [Press Release: A Community Right to Beauty](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/press-releases/press-release-a-community-right-to-beauty/) - EARN £45, 000 IF YOU WANT ACCESS TO BEAUTIFUL AND GREEN SURROUNDINGS EMBARGOED: 00:01 Thursday July 23th Households with incomes higher than £45, 000 a year (1) are the most able to access beautiful places and green spaces, according to a new report from the independent think tank ResPublica. The striking new finding is published - [BBC News: Phillip Blond on the MPs' pay rise](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bbc-news-phillip-blond-on-the-mps-pay-rise/) - [Guardian: Criminal Justice in Crisis](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/guardian-criminal-justice-in-crisis/) - [LBC: Phillip Blond on the wage hike for MPs](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/lbc-phillip-blond-on-the-wage-hike-for-mps/) - [Press Release: In Professions We Trust](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/press-releases/press-release-in-professions-we-trust/) - SELF SERVING PROFESSIONS NEED TO BE MADE TO ACT FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD Doctors, teachers and lawyers who cause harm to the public or bring their professions into disrepute should be brought to account by the communities they serve, according to a report from the leading independent think tank ResPublica. Published today the report ‘In - [BBC News: Phillip Blond on the Budget](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bbc-news-phillip-blond-on-the-budget/) - [BBC Newsnight: Phillip Blond on the introduction of Sunday trading laws](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bbc-newsnight-phillip-blond-on-the-introduction-of-sunday-trading-laws/) - [FT Adviser: Will new challenger herald the dawn of civilisation for the banking sector](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/ft-adviser-will-new-challenger-herald-the-dawn-of-civilisation-for-the-banking-sector/) - [BBC News: Phillip Blond on rethinking intervention in healthcare](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bbc-news-phillip-blond-on-rethinking-intervention-in-healthcare/) - [24Dash: Devolve all housebuilding decisions to loosen Whitehall's grip - think-tank](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/24dash-devolve-all-housebuilding-decisions-to-loosen-whitehalls-grip-think-tank/) - [Planning Resource: Report recommends new locally-led housing delivery model](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/planning-resource-report-recommends-new-locally-led-housing-delivery-model/) - [Inside Housing: 'Government should set up housebuilding partnerships'](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/inside-housing-government-should-set-up-housebuilding-partnerships/) - [Local Gov: Think tank makes call for new housing bodies](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/local-gov-think-tank-makes-call-for-new-housing-bodies/) - [Municipal Journal: Call for new housing groups](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/municipal-journal-call-for-new-housing-groups/) - [London Live: David Fagleman on the launch of 'Devo Home'](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/london-live-david-fagleman-on-the-launch-of-devo-home/) - The author of our report on UK housing, David Fagleman, appeared on London Live discussing the potential impact of the proposals we'd put forward. - [ConHome: We need bold action to tackle the housing crisis](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/conhome-we-need-bold-action-to-tackle-the-housing-crisis/) - Our Policy & Projects officer, Edward Douglas, calls for radical new housing plans as we prepare to launch our Devo Home report. - [Left Foot Forward: Unless we think big, the housing crisis won't end](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/left-foot-forward-unless-we-think-big-the-housing-crisis-wont-end/) - The author of our Devo Home report on UK housing, David Fagleman, shares his thoughts on the need for big ideas in tackling the crisis at hand - [Press Release: Devo Home](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/press-releases/press-release-devo-home/) - Double devolution is needed to solve the nation’s housing crisis, giving communities the power to make decisions about long term home building, a new report - Devo Home: A double devolution of housing to people and places - by leading independent think tank ResPublica has found. ResPublica says the only way to plug a shortage of affordable housing - [BBC Radio 2: Phillip Blond on CivilisedBank's adoption of bankers' oath](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bbc-radio-2-phillip-blond-on-civilisedmoneys-adoption-of-bankers-oath/) - [FT: Bank takes on equivalent of Hippocratic Oath](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/ft-bank-takes-on-equivalent-of-hippocratic-oath/) - The Financial Times reports on our work with CivilisedBank and The Bankers' Oath. - [Making Bankers Swear for the Better](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/making-bankers-swear-for-the-better/) - [City AM: FCA watchdog Martin Wheatley: I am not hunting for bankers’ scalps](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/fca-watchdog-martin-wheatley-i-am-not-hunting-for-bankers-scalps/) - [FT: Bank middle management is regulatory 'blind spot', says watchdog](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/ft-bank-middle-management-is-regulatory-blind-spot-says-watchdog/) - [Freed from coalition, UK's Cameron swings to the right](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/freed-from-coalition-uks-cameron-swings-to-the-right/) - [Reuters UK: Martin Wheatley calls for 'common sense' at ResPublica event](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/reuters-uk-martin-wheatley-calls-for-common-sense-at-respublica-event/) - [BBC News Channel: Phillip Blond discusses the 2015 Queen's Speech](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bbc-news-channel-phillip-blond-discusses-the-2015-queens-speech/) - [Press Release: Vocational Banking](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/press-releases/press-release-vocational-banking/) - The public has lost faith in bankers. Scandal after scandal, about dodgy dealings and bankers on the fiddle, has left the financial industry in turmoil. Now a new UK wide business and retail challenger bank, working with the independent think tank ResPublica, says every single one of its bankers must swear an oath, committing them - [Crafting Skills & Harnessing Creativity](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/news/crafting-skills-harnessing-creativity/) - To coincide with the first week of Parliament and the Queen’s speech, ResPublica have teamed up with the Crafts Council to bring you a series of blog posts in the Disraeli Room that discuss the role of crafts in the UK economy. During the week of posts written by experts, we will explore what can be done to support creative industry - [The True Meaning of Work: Why Economic Independence holds the key to tackling unemployment](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/news/the-true-meaning-of-work-why-economic-independence-holds-the-key-to-tackling-unemployment/) - With the General Election over and Ministerial positions finalised, the government must now turn its attention to implementing its manifesto and addressing the nation’s deep social and economic issues. Whilst overall unemployment figures are at their lowest level for seven years, youth employment is almost three times as high as the national average. Reducing unemployment - [Government adopts ResPublica plans for City Devolution](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/news/government-adopts-respublica-plans-for-city-devolution/) - ResPublica has long argued that devolving powers to new and emerging city regions and combined authorities will have the capacity to change and transform their social and economic environment. We have argued that this will be essential if cities are to deliver on the twin objectives of growth and reform. Our work over the past year built - [BBC Radio 5 Live: ResPublica Director discusses the plans for City Devolution](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bbc-radio-5-live-respublica-director-discusses-the-plans-for-city-devolution/) - [LBC: Phillip Blond joins Nick Ferrari to discuss City Devolution](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/lbc-phillip-blond-joins-nick-ferrari-to-discuss-city-devolution/) - [BBC News: Phillip Blond on the Government's adoption of City Devolution Plans](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bbc-news-phillip-blond-on-the-governments-adoption-of-city-devolution-plans/) - [Telegraph: It's time to unleash the power of the North](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/telegraph-its-time-to-unleash-the-power-of-the-north/) - [BBC News: Phillip Blond on 'The Scottish Question'](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bbc-news-phillip-blond-on-the-scottish-question/) - [Phillip Blond speaks at ‘Declaration for Devolution’](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/phillip-blond-speaks-at-declaration-for-devolution/) - A Declaration for Devolution On the 14th May 1787 the first ever Constitutional Convention began in North America, setting out the principles of governance for that country and a new, modern state. On the 14th May 2015 Core Cities UK, ResPublica and other important and valued partners that have helped advance the ‘place-based’ devolution agenda - [Share Radio: Ed Rennie on the 2015 UK General Election results](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/share-radio-ed-rennie-on-the-2015-uk-general-election-results/) - Edward Rennie, Head of Prosperity, joins Ed Mitchell's show on Share Radio, discussing the 2015 General Election result and what this result means for the economy. - [BBC Radio Merseyside: Phillip Blond analyses the UK General Election](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bbc-radio-merseyside-phillip-blond-analyses-the-uk-general-election/) - [London Live: What GE2015 means for London](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/london-live-what-ge2015-means-for-london/) - From 10am - 11am, Monday 11th May 2015, Head of Policy Programmes, Caroline Julian, joins the panel at London Live to discuss the consequences of the UK 2015 General Election for the Capital and for the rest of the UK. - [BBC News: It's rare in modern British politics to see candidates in non-standard colours](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bbc-news-its-rare-in-modern-british-politics-to-see-candidates-in-non-standard-colours/) - [Kurier: ResPublica Director interviewed by the leading Austrian broadsheet](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/kurier-respublica-director-interviewed-by-the-leading-austrian-broadsheet/) - [BBC One: Phillip Blond on The Big Questions](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bbc-one-phillip-blond-on-the-big-questions/) - The Big Questions @bbcbigquestions #bbctbq Phillip Blond joins Nicky Campbell on the discussion series live from the Pyramid and Parr Hall in Warrington, with questions on the death penalty, sex education and the church and politics: Should sex education be secular? Should the church stay out of politics? Is the death penalty ever justified? - [Municipal Journal: Key Cities demand fiscal freedoms](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/municipal-journal-key-cities-demand-fiscal-freedoms/) - The transfer of local property taxes must form the main plank to devolution at city level, an influential think tank reported today. - [Local Government Chronicle: Cities call for control of taxes](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/local-government-chronicle-cities-call-for-control-of-taxes/) - Cities should be given the “freedom to set and retain” taxes including council tax, stamp duty, and business rates, according to a new report. - [Blog Week: Securing Social Value as the primary metric for public services](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/news/social-value-blog-week/) - In 2012, the Social Value Act encouraged a new way of thinking about public service commissioning. Its passage demonstrated a recognition among policymakers that focusing solely on achieving the lowest possible price in public service provision fails to take into account the opportunities offered by the procurement process to create positive social, community and environmental - [Press Release: 'Power, People and Places: A Manifesto for devolution to Britain’s Key Cities’](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/press-releases/press-release-power-people-and-places-a-manifesto-for-devolution-to-britains-key-cities/) - DEVOLUTION TO KEY CITIES WILL SAVE £12.5 BILLION FOR THE PUBLIC PURSE EMBARGOED: 00.01 FRIDAY MAY 1st, 2015 Devolving power to Britain’s group of 26 Key Cities would see their vital contribution to the national economy soar, improve lives and raise billions of pounds for the Treasury. A report by the independent think tank ResPublica - [General Election 2015: ResPublica responses to the Party Manifestos](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/news/general-election-2015-respublica-responses-to-the-party-manifestos/) - All of the UK's poltiical parties have now released their General Election Manifestos containing their plans, spending commitments, budget cuts, and priorities for the next five years in Parliament. But should we be expecting something more? The ResPublica team have penned their thoughts and spoken their minds finding that you will not just deficit reduction strategies - [New Statesman: Phillip Blond reviews ResPublica Trustee Adrian Pabst's book on Blue Labour](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/new-statesman-phillip-blond-reviews-respublica-trustee-adrian-pabsts-book-on-blue-labour/) - [HowTheLightGetsIn 2014: Phillip Blond on Markets, Monopolies and Freedom](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/howthelightgetsin-2014-phillip-blond-on-markets-monopolies-and-freedom/) - Markets, Monopolies and Freedom The internet has democratised knowledge and transformed our lives. But from Microsoft to Apple, it is rampant with monopolies. Should we break up the corporations or, like China, build firewalls to keep them out? Would this nurture the prosperity of the West? The Panel Guardian economist Aditya Chakrabortty Google's Head of - [Rural Services Network: An agenda for warmer homes](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/rural-services-network-an-agenda-for-warmer-homes/) - [Bloomberg: Phillip Blond on why the Parties have stayed in their comfort zones](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bloomberg-phillip-blond-on-why-the-parties-have-stayed-in-their-comfort-zones/) - [HowTheLightGetsIn: Phillip Blond & John Milbank speak at the festival for philosophy and ideas](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/respublica-director-phillip-blond-chair-of-trustees-john-milbank-speak-at-the-howthelightgetsin-festival-for-philosophy-and-ideas/) - Phillip Blond and John Milbank will be speaking at HowTheLightGetsIn, the world’s largest philosophy and music festival, this May. Bringing together world-leading scientists, musicians, philosophers and politicians including Roger Penrose, Natalie Bennett, David Aaronovitch, Paul Krugman, Fiona Shaw, Robert Shiller, Polly Toynbee, Lianne La Havas, Tariq Ali, Martin Creed, and John Searle for debates, talks - [Lennart Meri 2015: Phillip Blond speaks on migration, defence and security at the annual Estonian conference](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/lennart-meri-2015-phillip-blond-speaks-on-migration-defence-and-security-at-the-annual-estonian-conference/) - Phillip Blond joins the prestigious Lennart Meri Conference in Estonia to discuss the political consequences of migration, security and defence on Europe and EU policy. - [21st Century Healthcare: A week of blogs on Health and the Life Sciences](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/news/21st-century-healthcare-a-week-of-blogs-on-health-and-the-life-sciences/) - The Life Science sector is the UK's fastest growing industry and it's success will be vital for a successful NHS in the future. This week, the Disraeli Room hosts an array of pieces including the opener from the Minister for Life Science, George Freeman. Life Sciences: The key to a 21st Century NHS by George Freeman, - [BBC News: Phillip Blond on the need for an extension to HS2](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/phillip-blond-speaks-to-bbc-news-hs2/) - [BBC Breakfast: Phillip Blond discusses health and social care](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bbc-breakfast-phillip-blond-discusses-health-and-social-care/) - BBC Breakfast presented by Louise Minchin visits Dundee, Scotland, to interview Phillip Blond (ResPublica), Nigel Henderson (Penumbra, The ALLIANCE), Dr Tracy Vell (Manchester Local Medical Committee) and Ian Weatherhead (Dementia UK) about devolved health and social care. - [Community Finance Blog Week: Making markets work for the many](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/news/community-finance-making-markets-work-for-the-many/) - In the run up to the General Election, no issue is more pertinent than personal debt. With 8.8 million people over-indebted and little prospect of a significant ease in balancing household budgets, innovative and sustainable solutions are urgently needed to enable people to access affordable credit, build savings and ensure that our financial system works for the whole - [Share Radio: Caroline Julian on the trouble with the UK's energy markets](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/share-radio-caroline-julian-on-the-trouble-with-the-uks-energy-markets/) - Share Radio discuss the UK's energy issues with ResPublica's Head of Policy Programmes, Caroline Julian - [Richard Sagar: A new approach to tackling fuel poverty](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/richard-sagar-a-new-approach-to-tackling-fuel-poverty/) - Energy researcher, Richard Sagar, argues for a rethink in the way energy efficiency measures aimed at the fuel poor are delivered and funded. - [Phillip Blond reports on the Leaders Debate for Swiss Television](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/phillip-blond-reports-on-the-leaders-debate-for-swiss-television/) - [Ecclesiastical and Atlantic Gateway Parklands join consortium backing our ‘Right to Beauty’ project](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/news/ecclesiastical-and-atlantic-gateway-parklands-join-consortium-backing-our-right-to-beauty-project/) - We are delighted to announce that two further organisations have joined the group of partners working with ResPublica to take forward our unique programme of activity on beauty and its contribution to social prosperity. Ecclesiastical, the heritage and church insurer, and Atlantic Gateway Parklands, the project to make places investable and liveable through an exceptional - [A new approach to tackling fuel poverty](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/a-new-approach-to-tackling-fuel-poverty/) - ResPublica Researcher Richard Sagar has written an article for BusinessGreen, arguing for a rethink in the way energy efficiency measures aimed at the fuel poor are delivered and funded. The article coincides with the release of our paper Out of the Cold: An Agenda for Warm Homes. - [Digital Currencies: Realising the potential of a transformative technology](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/news/digital-currencies-realising-the-potential-of-a-transformative-technology/) - In the wake of the financial crisis, the world of finance has seen the rapid growth of digital currencies. Offering a payment service that is quick, cheap and convenient, their popularity has risen as people look for alternatives to our mainstream financial institutions. With the government recently providing regulatory clarity and legitimacy to digital currencies and related - [Phillip Blond speaks to Bloomberg TV about the General Election](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/phillip-blond-speaks-to-bloomberg-tv-about-the-general-election/) - Our Director, Phillip Blond, spoke to Francine Lacqua and Guy Johnson on Bloomberg Politics about the Labour and Conservative parties' electoral campaign strategies. He said that David Cameron's announcement that he would not be standing for a third time was an 'error' which could prove 'extraordinarily destabilising' for his party, and argued that the Prime Minister will - [The Budget is an incremental step to place-based settlements at best](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/the-budget-is-an-incremental-step-to-place-based-settlements-at-best/) - Our Director, Phillip Blond, and Localism Lead, Mark Morrin, have written an article for the Local Government Chronicle about the Budget in the context of devolution. - [Budget 2015: City Devolution](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/news/budget-2015-city-devolution/) - The Chancellor’s budget includes a number of announcements about city-based devolution: A new devolution deal for West Yorkshire Combined Authority with powers over skills, business support, transport, employment and housing Business Rate retention pilots in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, and, subject to formal approval of Greater Manchester Combined Authority, in Greater Manchester and East Cheshire. Effective - [How to bring an end to cold homes](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/how-to-bring-an-end-to-cold-homes/) - Richard Sagar, a researcher at ResPublica and co-author of Out of the Cold: An Agenda for Warm Homes, has written an article for Liberal Democrat Voice - [It’s time to localise the fight against fuel poverty](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/its-time-to-localise-the-fight-against-fuel-poverty/) - Our Head of Policy Programmes, Caroline Julian, has written an article for ConservativeHome upon the launch of our publication Out of the Cold: An Agenda for Warm Homes. - [Give people the power to put an end to cold homes](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/give-people-the-power-to-put-an-end-to-cold-homes/) - Our Head of Policy Programmes, Caroline Julian, has written an article for Left Foot Forward upon the launch of our publication Out of the Cold: An Agenda for Warm Homes. - ['Out of the Cold' covered by The Independent on Sunday](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/out-of-the-cold-covered-by-the-independent-on-sunday/) - The Independent on Sunday has covered the launch of our report, Out of the Cold: An Agenda for Warm Homes. - [Families living in privately rented homes should be brought in from the cold](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/press-releases/families-living-privately-rented-homes-brought-cold/) - People living in privately rented accommodation are suffering from some of the coldest homes and least energy efficient levels of all types of housing, according to the leading independent think tank ResPublica. Despite fuel poverty and associated health problems often being viewed as a problem for older people, ResPublica has found it affects all ages, - [Why Labour must go blue: A new book co-edited by ResPublica trustee Adrian Pabst](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/news/labour-must-go-blue-new-book-co-edited-respublica-trustee-adrian-pabst/) - Amid the crisis of inequality and identity, the liberal consensus at the heart of British politics is broken. Blue Labour, a movement founded by Jon Cruddas MP and Lord Maurice Glasman, seeks to challenge the economic and social liberalism that characterises both the mainstream left and right. Blue Labour’s alternative to liberalism is economic justice, social - [Government adopts ResPublica's call for £6bn health expenditure devolution to Greater Manchester](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/news/government-adopts-respublicas-call-6bn-health-expenditure-devolution-greater-manchester/) - Our highly influential report Devo Max - Devo Manc: Place-based public services was headline news again this week with the Government agreeing to adopt the policy on health spending that we recommended. Tomorrow (27th February) the Chancellor, George Osborne, will announce a new healthcare deal between the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) and central government. - [Phillip Blond interviewed in International Business Times](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/phillip-blond-interviewed-international-business-times/) - Our Director, Phillip Blond, spoke to the International Business Times about MPs' salaries. - [Phillip Blond interviewed on BBC and Sky about MPs' salaries](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/phillip-blond-interviewed-bbc-sky-mps-salaries/) - Our Director, Phillip Blond, has been interviewed about MPs' salaries by BBC News Channel, Sky News and BBC Radio Ulster. Phillip argued that MPs should be paid a higher salary in line with the best-paid public servants, such as some doctors, headteachers or local authority leaders, and that second jobs should be banned unless they - [Press Release: Restoring Britain's City States](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/press-releases/press-release-restoring-britains-city-states/) - The UK’s largest cities and city regions need bottom-up devolution by the end of the next Parliament, according to the leading independent think tank ResPublica. In a new report, Restoring Britain’s City States: Devolution, Public Service Reform and Local Economic Growth, ResPublica says these potential economic powerhouses should be given control of public spending and - [The Times: Phillip Blond was catalyst for bishops' pastoral letter](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/times-phillip-blond-catalyst-bishops-pastoral-letter/) - An article in The Times reports today that a briefing by Phillip Blond, our Director, and Lord Maurice Glasman was the catalyst for the Church of England's House of Bishops' pastoral letter. It was claimed yesterday that the catalyst for the letter was a briefing given by the so-called Red Tory, Phillip Blond, and the "Blue - [The Guardian: Regional cities drive prosperity, says a charter for local freedom](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/guardian-regional-cities-drive-prosperity-says-charter-local-freedom/) - [ResPublica's Holistic Mission report scheduled for debate in the House of Lords](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/press-releases/respublicas-holistic-mission-report-scheduled-debate-house-lords/) - ResPublica is pleased to announce that its recent report, Holistic Mission: Social action and the Church of England, has been scheduled for debate in the House of Lords at 3pm on 21st November 2013. The motion “to move that this House takes note of the July 2013 report of ResPublica ‘Holistic Mission: Social Action and - [This is Money: UK public have lost faith in big business and believe government should step in, says lobby group](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/money-uk-public-lost-faith-big-business-believe-government-step-says-lobby-group/) - [Glasgow Evening Times: Major cities devolution summit being held in Glasgow](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/glasgow-evening-times-major-cities-devolution-summit-held-glasgow/) - [Yorkshire Evening Post: Osborne urged to ‘be ambitious’](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/yorkshire-evening-post-osborne-urged-ambitious/) - [City leaders at devolution summit](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/mail-online-city-leaders-devolution-summit/) - A Press Association article covering the UK Devolution Summit and the launch of our new report, Restoring Britain's City States: Devolution, public service reform and local economic growth was widely syndicated, appearing on Mail Online as well as in several regional and local newspapers, including the Belfast Telegraph and Shropshire Star. - [LocalGov: Devolution to cities could raise £222bn, says think tank](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/localgov-devolution-cities-raise-222bn-says-think-tank/) - [Phillip Blond interviewed on BBC News Channel](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/phillip-blond-interviewed-bbc-news-channel/) - Our Director, Phillip Blond, was interviewed this morning live from Glasgow at the UK Devolution Summit on BBC News Channel . - [Phillip Blond interviewed on BBC Radio Scotland](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/phillip-blond-interviewed-bbc-radio-scotland/) - Our Director Phillip Blond was interviewed alongside Gordon Mathieson, Leader of Glasgow City Council, on BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland. The interview begins at 01:49:00. - [A brief history of elected mayors in Britain](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/brief-history-elected-mayors-britain/) - Our Director, Phillip Blond, has been quoted by the Financial Times in an article about elected mayors in Britain, a day before the launch of ResPublica's new report, Restoring Britain's City States: Devolution, public service reform and local economic growth. - [Herald Scotland: Call to devolve more power to cities](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/herald-scotland-call-devolve-power-cities/) - [The Scotsman: Jim Murphy plans Edinburgh-Glasgow ‘powerhouse’](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/scotsman-jim-murphy-plans-edinburgh-glasgow-powerhouse/) - [Local Government Chronicle: Cities seek share of income tax for local investment](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/local-government-chronicle-cities-seek-share-income-tax-local-investment/) - [Yorkshire Post: Power plea for Yorkshire’s cities](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/yorkshire-post-power-plea-yorkshires-cities/) - [The Times: Cities need to have more power, insists think-tank](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/times-cities-need-power-insists-think-tank/) - [Sunday Express: Leaders of UK’s largest cities launch ‘Magna Carta’ grab for spending power](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/sunday-express-leaders-uks-largest-cities-launch-magna-carta-grab-spending-power/) - [Independent: Big cities call for devolved powers to tax and spend](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/independent-big-cities-call-devolved-powers-tax-spend/) - [UK city council leaders call for Scottish-style tax powers](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/uk-city-council-leaders-call-scottish-style-tax-powers/) - [Woodland Trust, National Trust, CPRE, Civic Voice and Hastoe join ResPublica project on beauty](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/news/woodland-trust-national-trust-campaign-protect-rural-england-civic-voice-join-respublicas-ground-breaking-project-beauty/) - In partnership with the Woodland Trust, National Trust, Campaign to Protect Rural England, Civic Voice and Hastoe Housing Association, we are taking forward a unique programme of activity on beauty and its contribution to social prosperity. Beauty plays a central role in enabling people and communities to flourish. Beautiful places improve local public health and wellbeing, facilitate strong - [Phillip Blond interviewed on Sky News](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/phillip-blond-interviewed-sky-news/) - Our Director Phillip Blond has appeared on Sky News with Dermot Murnaghan discussing Ed Miliband and Labour's relationship with big business. Phillip was discussing the topic with Stefan Stern from LabourList and Dermot Murnaghan after Ed Miliband hit back at criticism from Stefano Pessina, Chief Executive of Walgreen Boots Alliance, of the Labour Party over the - [Phillip Blond interviewed on LBC](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/phillip-blond-interviewed-lbc/) - Our Director Phillip Blond has been interviewed on Shelagh Fogarty's LBC radio show about government proposals for English devolution. - [Phillip Blond quoted in Liverpool Echo on need for high speed rail](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/phillip-blond-quoted-liverpool-echo-need-high-speed-rail/) - Our Director Phillip Blond has been quoted extensively in an article in the Liverpool Echo about the opportunities of high speed rail and the need for better high speed rail links in the North, including to Liverpool. - ['Owning the World' with Phillip Blond, Anatole Kaletzky and Owen Jones.](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/owning-world-phillip-blond-anatole-kaletzky-owen-jones/) - [Informing thinking around employee ownership](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/news/informing-thinking-around-employee-ownership/) - In the run-up to the Inspire EO Conference, which will be held on 5 February at the National Motorcycle Museum near Birmingham, the Disraeli Room is publishing a series of blog posts on the state and future of employee ownership in the UK. The conference is being organised by the John Lewis Partnership together with - [The Intergenerational Conflict](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/news/intergenerational-conflict/) - ResPublica has teamed up with the Intergenerational Foundation to bring you 7 days of blogs examining the failure of public policy to serve young people's interests. From housing to taxation, pensions to voting, this week the Disraeli Room will ask how we can achieve a fair future for all that avoids an intergenerational conflict: Monday 15th - [Multiculturalism led to fundamental schisms in society](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/multiculturalism-led-fundamental-schisms-society/) - ['France Response Risks Radicalising More Muslims' ](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/france-response-risks-radicalising-muslims/) - [The future of Putin, the Rouble and Russia: today's interview with Phillip Blond on BloombergTV](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/putin-dangerous-political-place-phillip-blond-interviewed-bloomberg-news/) - [Bloomberg interview Phillip Blond on the rise of UKIP after the Rochester & Strood by-election](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bloomberg-interview-phillip-blond-rise-ukip-rochester-strood-election/) - [Calls for payday lenders to offer more debt advice as industry reveals a third of people it declines turn to loan sharks](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/calls-payday-lenders-offer-debt-advice-industry-reveals-third-people-declines-turn-loan-sharks/) - [No other region has the same level of political collaboration](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/no-region-level-political-collaboration/) - [Credit Ladder author writes for the FT Adviser on its recommendations](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/credit-ladder-author-writes-ft-adviser-recommendations/) - [BBC News: Phillip Blond on 'Restoring Self-Government to Britain'](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bbc-news-phillip-blond-restoring-self-government-britain/) - [Dutch TV programme on Phillip Blond and the introduction of his policy ideas in the Netherlands](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/dutch-tv-programme-phillip-blond-introduction-policy-ideas-netherlands/) - [Netherlands Asks Bankers to Swear to God](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/netherlands-asks-bankers-swear-god/) - [Climbing the Credit Ladder: Short-term loans as a path to long-term credit](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/press-releases/climbing-the-credit-ladder-short-term-loans-as-a-path-to-long-term-credit/) - ResPublica calls for reform of the short-term finance market so it helps people escape the debt trap and improve their credit ratings. Payday loans have rightly been subjected to a lot of regulation and reform that has eliminated much of what was wrong in the industry. But ResPublica believe reform could and should go much - [Press Release: Devo Max - Devo Manc: Place-based public services](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/press-releases/press-release-devo-max-devo-manc-place-based-public-services/) - A radical plan enabling Greater Manchester to set its own income tax in 5 years and elect its own independent Mayor is being proposed by Phillip Blond from the independent think tank ResPublica. ResPublica says Greater Manchester should be the first fully devolved City in England with full control over all the public spending in - [Press Release: Virtuous Banking: Placing ethos and purpose at the heart of finance](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/press-releases/press-release-virtuous-banking-placing-ethos-purpose-heart-finance/) - Think tank ResPublica calls for the introduction of an oath for bankers similar to the Hippocratic Oath in order to raise accountability and standards in banking. The lack of public trust in UK banking is an ongoing concern for both the industry and Government. Hardly a week goes by without another banking scandal hitting the - [Press Release: Creating Local Energy Economies - Lessons from Germany](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/press-releases/press-release-creating-local-energy-economies-lessons-germany/) - Germany has 44 times the number of energy suppliers than the UK - Government must do more to support new entrants into the supply market, think tank argues. Lower bills depend on support for new local suppliers. A new publication by the influential think tank ResPublica reveals that businesses looking to become energy suppliers face - [ResPublica launches 'The Virtue of Enterprise' essay collection](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/press-releases/respublica-launches-virtue-enterprise-essay-collection/) - Following Ed Miliband's speech on the need for banking reform and an ethos-driven economy, the latest publication from the think tank ResPublica argues that a radical change in attitude from our businesses is needed if the private sector is to regain the trust of British consumers. With public trust in businesses at an all-time low - [When will the Conservative Party fight for England?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/will-conservative-party-fight-england/) - We know that electoral boundaries are currently drawn in ways that disadvantage the Conservative Party. There is a pressing need for reform, if the Members elected to Parliament are effectively to represent the people who vote for them. But neither the Labour Party nor the Liberal Democrats will cooperate, since both of them, in their - [Partnership Opportunity for a Forthcoming ResPublica Project](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/news/partnership-opportunity-forthcoming-respublica-project/) - Are our schools working? Do they equip our young people with the skills they need to get jobs? Do they guide students to develop strength of character and ethical sense? Does our assessment system work? Are our schools connected to other learning institutions, local communities, and wider society? Are our teachers as confident and expert - [Make Reforms for the Right Reasons](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/make-reforms-right-reasons/) - The proper meaning of “revolution” is a return to a previous order. David Cameron’s campaign to transfer power and responsibility from state to society is revolutionary. Schools are being forcibly naturalised, like colonials after decolonisation, who served a distant king but now belong to the country they inhabit. This is progress, but it is also - [Can Labour learn to love localism?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/can-labour-learn-love-localism/) - It is symbolic of the last Labour government's severe addiction to centralisation that in a few weeks the party is holding its local government conference for the first time in eight years. By contrast, it was notable that in his underestimated speech at the weekend, Ed Miliband radically committed his party to breaking the centralising - [Iter Lamentabilis](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/iter-lamentabilis/) - On Tuesday, the European Court of Human Rights ruled in favour of one Christian complaining about UK law on freedom of religion and against three others. Or, to be precise, a Chamber of the Court gave that ruling. It is still possible for appeals to be made to the full Court. While we might take - [The Coalition's Mid-Term Review - Ronseal – or just whitewash?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/coalitions-mid-term-review-ronseal-just-whitewash/) - The Coalition Government had a long time to prepare its presentation of its Mid-Term review. It had two and a half years to the actual middle of a five year parliament. Then it gave itself another couple of months before producing this anodyne review of its first half and the preview of its second. So - [The Supply Side State](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/supply-side-state/) - The Labour Party was founded on the needs of labour. And for most of the 20th Century the interests of waged workers and the interests of capital were held to be diametrically opposed and mutually hostile. Slightly higher wages were all that workers could practically hope for, whereas holders of capital rightly assumed that the - [ResPublica Announces New Project on a Civic Approach to Banking](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/news/respublica-announces-new-project-civic-approach-banking/) - ResPublica today announce a new project that will commence in 2013. The project will explore innovative ways to address current challenges in the world of banking, outlining ways to radically re-think financial sector policy and practice. Critically, such a review must recognise that renewal of the industry should be groundedbothin a pragmatic understanding of the - [Towards a Responsible Recovery: The added value of housing organisations](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/towards-responsible-recovery-added-value-housing-organisations/) - The Chancellor’s recent Autumn Statement re-asserted that there are tough times ahead, of which downgraded growth projections, ongoing austerity measures and a cut to work-related benefits are just a few indications. Putting the political disputes to one side, these measures have been taken to speed up economic recovery, if slower than previously predicted. Yet what - ["It’s not all about ‘shirkers’ and ‘strivers’ – we must be the party of ordinary working people"](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/shirkers-strivers-must-party-ordinary-working-people/) - Politics is polar – left versus right; liberal versus authoritarian; europhile versus eurosceptic. But out in the real world, and to the frequent bewilderment of the political class, most people decline to conform to the archetypes that others invent for them. Take the debate over welfare reform, in which, supposedly, the country is polarised between - [Cameron’s Speech and Britain’s New Vision for Europe](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/camerons-speech-britains-new-vision-europe/) - David Cameron’s speech has generated much the expected reaction. Domestically those on the Conservative right who hate Europe have welcomed the offer of an in/out referendum as giving them the chance to finally escape a continental union they despise, while those on the left decry Cameron for his reckless disregard of UK national interests and - [ResPublica Announces New Research Project](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/news/respublica-announces-new-research-project/) - ResPublica today announce a new research project commencing January 2013. The wide-reaching programme of research will engage practically with partners in local government and other community intermediaries in order to map out the need for further reforms to achieve deeper, more radical forms of localism. The Localism agenda presents an unprecedented opportunity for local authorities - [EU Renegotiation Can Be Achieved](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/eu-renegotiation-can-achieved/) - Britain’s financial services sector is our single most successful industry. It is our biggest exporter – providing the foreign currency we need to pay for other imports; it contributes one in every eight pounds of the taxes that pay for our public services; and it employs (directly and in related businesses) over two million people: - [Empire Strikes Back](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/empire-strikes-back/) - Panel debate featuring ResPublica's Phillip Blond at HowTheLightGetsIn Festival 2012. - [ResPublica Responds to the New Report on Local Government Independence](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/news/respublica-responds-new-report-local-government-independence/) - The Political and Constitutional Reform Committee yesterday published their report, Prospects for codifying the relationship between central and local government, which detailed the findings of the Committee’s inquiry into the constitutional status of local government and its relationship with central government. The report argues that the relationship between the two spheres of government needs to - [The Conservative Party Must Connect with Ordinary Working People](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/conservative-party-must-connect-ordinary-working-people/) - Recently, in the Conservative Party, there have been a slew of speeches, pamphlets and exhortations arguing to extend the ‘modernising’ project if the party is to stay in power. Yet among the least noticed developments in Conservative circles , but the most clocked among Labour’s team, was a break from the vitriol of ‘strivers’ versus - [Commission on Youth Interview Series: Kate Green MP](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/commission-youth-interview-series-kate-green-mp/) - Theme: Authorities & Institutions Vicky Caswell (21) asks Kate Green MP to identify some of the reasons why some young people feel disengaged from the political process and the institutions that govern their lives. See Also: Commission on Youth Interview Series: Tim Loughton MP Commission on Youth Interview Series: Shaun Bailey Commission on Youth Interview - [Commission on Youth Interview Series: David Blunkett MP](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/commission-youth-interview-series-david-blunkett-mp/) - Theme: Engagement & Participation Linda Epstein (17) talks to David Blunkett MP about engagement, citizenship programs and how politicians can connect with young people more effectively. See Also: Commission on Youth Interview Series: Tim Loughton MP Commission on Youth Interview Series: Shaun Bailey Commission on Youth Interview Series: Kate Green MP Commission on Youth Interview - [ResPublica Welcomes the Enforcement of the Social Value Act](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/news/respublica-welcomes-enforcement-social-value-act/) - Today, the Public Services (Social Value) Act comes into force. The new legislation requires local authorities and other commissioners, including housing associations, to consider the social impact of their public service contracts before they start the procurement process. Chris White MP, ResPublica Advisor and sponsor of the Bill, said: “The Public Services (Social Value) Act - [An Act that Stands Up for Social Value](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/act-stands-social-value/) - Today the Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012, also known as the Social Value Act, which I introduced over two and a half years ago, will be officially implemented across public sector bodies including NHS Trusts, local authorities and central government departments. The Act is short and simple. But it seeks to change the way - [A Christian Commonwealth of Nations is Europe's Best Possible Future](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/christian-commonwealth-nations-europes-best-possible-future/) - David Cameron's long-awaited speech on Europe made some good points about the EU's current crisis of legitimacy and the imperative to reconnect the European project to its citizens. But he was wrong to claim that the choice for Europe is either a centralised super-state based on the eurozone or a loose network of sovereign nation-states - [Commission on Youth Interview Series: Shaun Bailey](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/commission-youth-interview-series-shaun-bailey/) - Theme: Family Structure & Community Support Shaun Bailey talks to Tom Clarke (23) about family breakdown in Britain and the role of religious groups in fostering a sense of community. See Also: Commission on Youth Interview Series: Tim Loughton MP Commission on Youth Interview Series: Shaun Bailey Commission on Youth Interview Series: Kate Green MP - [Commission on Youth Interview Series: Tim Loughton MP](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/commission-youth-interview-series-tim-loughton-mp/) - Themes: Authorities & Institutions Tim Loughton talks to Rhasan Brunner (18) about the importance of education for increasing life chances and preventing a repeat of the riots. See Also: Commission on Youth Interview Series: Tim Loughton MP Commission on Youth Interview Series: Shaun Bailey Commission on Youth Interview Series: Kate Green MP Commission on Youth - [Commission on Youth Interview Series: Baroness Jones](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/commission-youth-interview-series-baroness-jones/) - Theme: Engagement and Participation Baroness Jones discusses problems with the education system and the importance and potential of volunteering. See Also: Commission on Youth Interview Series: Tim Loughton MP Commission on Youth Interview Series: Shaun Bailey Commission on Youth Interview Series: Kate Green MP Commission on Youth Interview Series: David Burrowes MP Commission on Youth - [It's Time to Stand Up for the Progressive and Conservative Institution of Marriage](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/time-stand-progressive-conservative-institution-marriage/) - David Burrowes MP praises ResPublica's new publication in the Huffington Post. - [David Burrowes MP leads Opposition to Same Sex Marriage with new ResPublica Rpeort](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/press-releases/david-burrowes-mp-leads-opposition-sex-marriage-new-respublica-rpeort/) - The Government’s Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill compromises the meaning of both traditional heterosexual marriage and homosexual partnership, says a new publication from the think tank ResPublica ahead of the Parliamentary debate on the Bill on Tuesday 5th February. Written by Phillip Blond and Roger Scruton, Marriage: Union for the future or contract for the - [Tories Face Split Over Gay Marriage Bill](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/tories-face-split-gay-marriage-bill/) - Financial Times on the gay marriage bill debate and ResPublica's paper. - [Tory divisions over plans to allow same-sex marriage](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/tory-divisions-plans-allow-sex-marriage/) - Mail Online on same sex marriage and ResPublica's paper. - [Gay Marriage: Maria Miller insists government is right to press ahead](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/gay-marriage-maria-miller-insists-government-right-press-ahead/) - BBC reports on ResPublica's Marriage publication. - [House of Commons: Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/house-commons-marriage-sex-couples-bill/) - Jim Dobbin MP urges the House to read ResPublica's Green Paper on Marriage. - [The Health And Safety Culture Is Killing Volunteeering and The Benefits Of Risk](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/health-safety-culture-killing-volunteeering-benefits-risk/) - The Conservative Party has rightly emphasized that it is civil society, not the state, that is the source of our shared values and our public spirit. Each function that is taken over by the state ends up in the hands of the bureaucrats. And the bigger the bureaucracy the more prone it is to invasion - [The Future of Love: The erotic politics of Benedict XVI](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/future-love-erotic-politics-benedict-xvi/) - The papacy of Benedict XVI, though sadly short, has been one of immense significance. More than any other Pope in recent memory, he understood the deepest theological currents that lay behind Vatican II, and stood doggedly against a threatened revival of neo-scholastic conservatism by insisting on the co-belonging of faith and reason. Faith, for Benedict, - ['Red Tory guru' to attend NHF's Leaders' Forum](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/red-tory-guru-attend-nhfs-leaders-forum/) - ResPublica Director Phillip Blond to speak at NHF conference. - [ResPublica/ NCVYS Commission on Youth launches video interviews with key public figures](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/news/respublica-ncvys-commission-youth-launches-video-interviews-key-public-figures/) - ResPublica and the National Council for Voluntary Youth Services today launch a series of video interviews with a number of leading political commentators. The interviews form a key part of the ResPublica/NCVYS Commission on Youth, a multi-output initiative aimed at unravelling a more holistic analysis of the 2011 riots as well as the more general - [Postmodern Tories: What does the Conservative party believe any more?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/postmodern-tories-conservative-party-believe/) - The mid-term of a government is a time of reflection, in which the parties can revive their attachments and reformulate their message. Two recent volumes, Britannia Unchained, co-authored by a group of young Conservative MPs, and Tory Modernisation 2.0, issued by Bright Blue, an organisation that campaigns for reform within the Conservative party, give us - [Alexander Ogorodnikov’s Story: In pursuit of a civil society](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/alexander-ogorodnikovs-story-pursuit-civil-society/) - It is a feature of the Eurocentric way we teach our history that concentration camps are often spoken of as a feature of our past, whose grim crushing of millions of human lives has been vanquished. Meanwhile, in North Korea 200,000 of our fellow humans presently languish in the Communist regime’s own gulag archipelago, and - [Localising the Work Programme](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/localising-work-programme/) - The recent ONS figures on unemployment present, at face value, a positive picture for economic growth. However, the rise in employment was largely boosted by youth unemployment figures, whereas the number of long-term claimants has stagnated. The Work Programme continues to be condemned for not delivering on its objectives, a key part of which was - [The Good News on Jobs](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/good-news-jobs/) - Unemployment continues to fall. The latest figures, published last week, showed that the number of people looking for work and claiming unemployment benefits fell by 12,500 in the last month to stand at 1.54 million. Nevertheless, the headline figures must seem remote to the anxieties of anyone who does lose their job. Becoming unemployed can - [ResPublica's Caroline Julian Awarded Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowship](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/news/respublicas-caroline-julian-awarded-winston-churchill-memorial-trust-fellowship/) - Caroline Julian, a senior researcher at ResPublica, has been awarded a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowship to pursue her research on community energy. The WCMT fellowship is a highly competitive and well respected award. From 1161 applications, 238 individuals were interviewed and only 125 were successful this year. Through her fellowship, Caroline will travel to - ['Social landlords should deliver the Work Programme'](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/social-landlords-deliver-work-programme/) - 24dash reports on ResPublica's new publication. - [Landlords should be rewarded for community work](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/landlords-rewarded-community-work/) - Inside Housing on ResPublica's report Responsible Recovery. - [Tackling Poverty Requires People-Centred Action](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/tackling-poverty-requires-people-centred-action/) - In January 2013 the Greater Manchester Poverty Commission reported that 600,000 people were living in ‘extreme poverty’ and a further 1.6 million – nearly half the conurbation’s total – were at risk of sliding into poverty. These figures were quickly forgotten by national media, but should give pause for thought. A city where half the - [Mid Staffs shows everything that's rotten in the house of management](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/mid-staffs-shows-everything-thats-rotten-house-management/) - The Mid Staffs NHS scandal will not go away. The collapse of the hospital trust into administration and the subsequent resignation of two board members ensures that the wound will continue to bleed, ratcheting up the pressure on the embattled NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson. Investigation of suspicious death rates at a number of - [Comment: Politicians should connect with voters, not their stereotypes](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/comment-politicians-connect-voters-stereotypes/) - In reviewing the last few days' barrage of opinion on how David Cameron should be connecting with the voters, the main point of contention between commentators could be summarised as 'representing the interests of blue-collar C(c)onservatives' versus 'acting out of fairness for the common good'. Such a dispute seems to be arbitrary political positioning of - [How localism can prevent another Cantril Farm](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/localism-can-prevent-another-cantril-farm/) - In the 1960s a local newspaper hailed a 'plan for gracious living' in a new town that would be home to more than 15,000 escapees from Liverpool's slums and deprivation. But when residents arrived at the Cantril Farm estate in Knowsley in 1965 there were no shops and no buses back to the places they - [RBH Welcomes ResPublica “Responsible Recovery” Report](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/rbh-welcomes-respublica-responsible-recovery-report/) - Rochdale Boroughwide Housing welcomes Responsible Recovery, reports the Manchester Gazette. - [Cameron Is Right: The common ground is not the centre ground](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/cameron-right-common-ground-centre-ground/) - There’s been no shortage of opinion on how David Cameron should lead and direct the Conservative Party over the last few days. And even less scarce are the various calls for turning and lurching that would resemble a new disco dance routine were he to take heed. However Cameron's public response has been to stay - [When Good Neighbours Become Good Policy](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/good-neighbours-become-good-policy/) - Where will you find a policeman being given an affordable home among the community he serves? Or a housing association boss a tenant can have a chat with in the street? Since 1992, several hundred homes in a corner of west London have been the standard-bearers of a remarkable experiment in neighbourliness. Previously owned by - [The High Street Trumps the Internet](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/high-street-trumps-internet/) - When HMV announced its move into administration earlier this year, it was interesting to watch and contrast the trends of public feeling displayed via national and social media. There was of course the wave of nostalgic, even patriotic pride as people lamented the decline of a British brand that brought back memories of some of - [Achieving the Economic Benefits of a More Plural Economy](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/achieving-economic-benefits-plural-economy/) - Interest in employee ownership is, in my experience, most often motivated by a desire for a fairer and more responsible form of capitalism and a drive to encourage personal responsibility among employees. Those benefits are certainly real, and the interest in the former is stronger than ever in the aftermath of the financial crisis. But - [Britain's Leaders Call for Wider Ownership Through Mutuals](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/britains-leaders-call-wider-ownership-mutuals/) - Co-operative News covers ResPublica's Making It Mutual collection. - [Give viewers shares in the BBC, Jowell urges](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/give-viewers-shares-bbc-jowell-urges/) - ResPublica's new essay collection is covered by Politics.co. - [John Lewis and Barclays - The contrasting faces of capitalism](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/john-lewis-barclays-contrasting-faces-capitalism/) - Here's what John Spedan Lewis had to say in a BBC radio broadcast in the 1950s as he explained why he had given the family company to the staff: "The present state of affairs is really a perversion of the proper working of capitalism. It is all wrong to have millionaires before you have ceased - [ResPublica Welcomes Utiligroup and RenewableUK as Partners for Forthcoming Project](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/news/respublica-welcomes-utiligroup-renewableuk-partners-forthcoming-project/) - ResPublica is pleased to announce that RenewableUK and Utiligroup will be partners for ResPublica's forthcoming research project, 'The Community Renewables Economy: Starting up, scaling up and spinning out'', due to commence Spring 2013. Additional opportunities to partner with ResPublica on the project and surrounding activity are still open for third party organisations. The project, to - [Making It Mutual: A radical ethic of social innovation?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/making-mutual-radical-ethic-social-innovation/) - In July 2010, fresh from electoral success, UK Prime Minister David Cameron announced at Liverpool Hope University that he wanted to build a ‘big society’. It would comprise, he proposed, public service reform, new models of philanthropy, and fresh approaches to community empowerment. Three years later, while the language of ‘big society’ has fallen by - [Conservative Big society guru Phillip Blond slams Battersea estate as conditions as from "Soviet-era"](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/conservative-big-society-guru-phillip-blond-slams-battersea-estate-conditions-soviet-era/) - Your Local Guardian reports on ResPublica Director Phillip Blond's visit to the Surrey Lane, Winstanley and York Road estates. - [Budget 2013: Some of Osborne's tiny changes could give a big boost to British industry](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/budget-2013-osbornes-tiny-changes-give-big-boost-british-industry/) - [Cheshire Gives a Lead to Rural Counties Looking for a Fresh Approach](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/cheshire-gives-lead-rural-counties-looking-fresh-approach/) - One of the ironies of the government's radical plans for localism is that they have sought to impose a narrative which champions the nation's major cities over and above its counties and rural areas. Local economic growth, Ministers aver, will most likely come from the complexity generated by intense city based interactions and trading. Even - [MP Suggests German Model for Local Lending](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/mp-suggests-german-model-local-lending/) - FT Adviser reports on Guy Opperman MP's 'Making It Mutual' essay. - [We Need to Talk About the Ownership and Control of Schools](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/need-talk-ownership-control-schools/) - With the rumpus about forced academies and the news last week that a 27-year-old ex-deputy director of a right-wing think tank with no previous teaching experience is to become the head of a free school in London, the debate about ownership and control in our school system is likely to hot up. The academy model, - [Is a ‘Property-Owning Democracy’ Enough?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/property-owning-democracy-enough/) - Amongst the critique, commentators have given a cautious welcome to the Chancellor’s plans to support a ‘property-owning democracy’. With home ownership for the 25-34 age group down by a third in the last ten years, measures set to encourage construction and attainable mortgages for first time buyers have been endorsed by some. But whilst promoting - [The Real Big Society: Why we need activism and open dissent](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/real-big-society-need-activism-open-dissent/) - The Guardian's Local Government Network covers ResPublica's report Responsible Recovery. - [Regenerating London: To develop, don't destroy](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/regenerating-london-develop-dont-destroy/) - The Guardian's London blog cites ResPublica report Responsible Recovery. - [When Hope Tramples Truth](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/hope-tramples-truth/) - Apollo granted to his Trojan priestess Cassandra the gift of prophecy. But because she resisted his advances he punished her by ensuring that nobody would ever believe what she said. Such has been the fate of pessimists down the ages. Those who interrupt the good cheer of their fellows with the thought that the things - [Government Funding Announced for Social Enterprise Incubators](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/news/government-funding-announced-social-enterprise-incubators/) - In line with the recommendations made in ResPublica’s report, The Venture Society: Fuelling aspiration, independence and growth through grass-roots social entrepreneurship, two regional projects designed to provide collaborative spaces and intensive support for social enterprises have been granted financial aid from the Government’s Social Incubator Fund. Social Incubator North and Hub Launchpad will each receive - [Baby boomers don't want to live in older people's homes](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/baby-boomers-dont-want-live-older-peoples-homes/) - Bruce Moore writes about Hanover Housing's think piece project, featuring ResPublica and other think tanks. - [Thatcher's Perverse Victory and the Prospect of an Ethical Economy](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/thatchers-perverse-victory-prospect-ethical-economy/) - Margaret Thatcher has been retrospectively turned into some sort of heroine - even a saint. But her true status was grasped most accurately by the Jewish atheist historian Raphael Samuel. In a justly famous series of articles published in the Guardian in the 1980s, Samuel argued that Thatcher was Britain's first truly secular leader. The - [The Legacy of Margaret Thatcher](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/legacy-margaret-thatcher/) - Margaret Thatcher saved Britain's economy and had she been less Euro-sceptic perhaps she could have saved Europe from the Euro. But the lack of any account of the social blinded her to the fate of her people. In the end she created a world in which too few won and too many lost. The newspapers - [Beyond State and Market](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/beyond-state-market/) - Italian publication Telos Primo Piano interviews ResPublica Director Phillip Blond. - [Heroes and Heroines of Compassionate Conservatism](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/heroes-heroines-compassionate-conservatism/) - Conservative Homes maps the story of compassionate conservatism in Britain, featuring ResPublica's Phillip Blond. - [Thought Leadership on Housing and Ageing](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/news/thought-leadership-housing-ageing/) - To celebrate their 50th birthday, Hanover Housing has invited ten leading think tanks to write a thought-provoking piece to prompt a fresh look on housing and ageing. The 'Hanover@50 Debate' will inform Hanover’s new vision – to be launched at the end of 2013. Authored by Research Associate, and Chief Executive of Shared Lives, Alex - [A place that will drive economic and social recovery. In other words, a cathedral](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/place-will-drive-economic-social-recovery-words-cathedral/) - This week, Baroness Berridge and Mark Hoban MP, the Minister for Employment, will launch an entrepreneurial initiative intended to back new firms and create fresh jobs from what, at first sight, may be an unlikely location – a Cathedral of the Church of England. The Minister for Cities, Greg Clark MP, has pledged to be - [ResPublica at Party Conferences 2013](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/news/respublica-party-conferences-2013/) - ResPublica is pleased to announce our presence at all three party conferences this autumn. Our 2013 Fringe Programme will build on the success of last year where ResPublica received an unprecedented level of interest and engagement, with standing room only at many events. This year, we will have a strong presence at all three party - [Truth In Politics](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/truth-politics/) - Human beings make rational choices, and choices are rational only if they seek out the truth. But the truth may be uncomfortable, so that we have a motive to avoid it. Or it may be unacceptable to those on whom we wish to impose our decisions, in which case we have a motive to conceal - [Referendum UK](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/referendum-uk/) - Interview with ResPublica Director Phillip Blond on the EU referendum bill. - [Let's stop wasting money on social science research that never gets used](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/lets-stop-wasting-money-social-science-research-never-gets-used/) - ConservativeHome's Deep End Discusses Phillip Blond's view on ideas-led research. - [Neither austerity nor Keynesianism](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/neither-austerity-keynesianism/) - Here are two thinkers who want to reform the state for making more accurate and more efficient. But one, Philippe Aghion, close to the socialists, wants to make intelligent, the other, Phillip Blond , who inspired the concept of "Big Society" British Conservative, wants to reduce it to its bare minimum. Confrontation. -Think you that - [Why Risk Waivers for SMEs would help to fire economic growth](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/risk-waivers-smes-help-fire-economic-growth/) - It is no secret that personal and corporate lending has stagnated over the last five years. The credit that our businesses and households need is simply not as available as it was. We desperately need a strategy from Government that combats one of the main causes of this contemporary restriction in lending: unprotected and unaddressed - [Loans should be safeguarded to kick-start economy](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/loans-safeguarded-kick-start-economy/) - Paul Walsh, CEO of CUNA Mutual Europe, discusses the findings of ResPublica's Risk Waiver Green Paper. - [What older people need is not choice, but companionship](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/older-people-need-not-choice-companionship/) - Government policies for older people's care aim to offer them choice and control over their support. This choice-based approach reflects similar developments in support for working-age disabled adults, and has come to underpin many of our public services. But as we argue in a ResPublica paper, published on Wednesday, the choice to remain an active, - [ResPublica announces Arup and John Lewis Partnership as lead partners for forthcoming 'ownership' conference](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/news/respublica-announces-arup-john-lewis-partnership-lead-partners-forthcoming-ownership-conference/) - ResPublica is pleased to announce that Arup and John Lewis Partnership will be the lead partners for ResPublica's forthcoming 'thought leaders' conference, "Ownership in the 21st Century", due to take place in Autumn 2013. Additional opportunities to partner with ResPublica on the conference and surrounding activity are still open for third party organisations. Many of - [Evening Standard - Use Church 'to build Big Society'](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/evening-standard-use-church-build-big-society/) - The Evening Standard report on ResPublica's Holistic Mission report. - [Daily Express - Use Church 'to build Big Society'](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/daily-express-use-church-build-big-society/) - The Daily Express reports on ResPublica's Holistic Mission report. - [Daily Telegraph - The Archbishop of Canterbury must wean the Church off its benefit addiction](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/daily-telegraph-archbishop-canterbury-must-wean-church-off-benefit-addiction/) - Isabel Hardman at the Daily Telegraph discusses ResPublica's Holistic Mission report. - [Why the Government needs to let the Church of England deliver more public services](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/government-needs-let-church-england-deliver-public-services/) - ResPublica's Director Phillip Blond discusses our Holistic Mission paper on Conservative Home. - [Housing regulation should encourage innovation](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/housing-regulation-encourage-innovation/) - ResPublica's Caroline Julian discusses the purpose of social housing regulation for the Guardian. - [ResPublica Responds to The Energy and Climate Change Committee’s Latest Report](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/press-releases/respublica-responds-energy-climate-change-committees-latest-report/) - The Energy and Climate Change Committee yesterday published their report, Local Energy, presenting the findings of the Committee’s inquiry into the benefits of local renewable energy projects. The consultation, for which ResPublica submitted evidence, found that financial support should be given to local renewable energy projects because of the benefits they can generate to communities - [The New Serfdom](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/new-serfdom/) - An Interview with the conservative thinker Phillip Blond in Austrian publication Wiener Zeitung. - [Community energy could grow 89 times by 2020](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/community-energy-grow-89-times-2020/) - Community owned energy could grow by 89 times its current size if the right national and local policies are put in place, according to a report by the think-tank ResPublica. - [Report calls on councils to stop blocking community energy schemes](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/report-calls-councils-stop-blocking-community-energy-schemes/) - [Local councils told to stop blocking community energy projects](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/local-councils-told-stop-blocking-community-energy-projects/) - [Community energy could grow by 89 times but councils block progress, says report](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/community-energy-grow-89-times-councils-block-progress-says-report/) - Inside Housing profiles ResPublica's latest Green Paper on community energy. - [Councils could energise renewables revolution, think tank claims](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/councils-energise-renewables-revolution-think-tank-claims/) - LocalGov profiles ResPublica's latest Green Paper on community energy. - [Leadership from local authorities is needed for community energy to grow](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/leadership-local-authorities-needed-community-energy-grow/) - The appetite among communities for owning and generating their own electricity is growing. A new study by ResPublica has revealed that community energy capacity has increased by over 1,300% to nearly 60MW over the past decade. By 2020, we estimate that the sector will grow nine-fold to 550MW. But its capacity could be much greater - [Community energy: power to the people](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/community-energy-power-people/) - The Guardian profiles a roundtable that ResPublica Director, Phillip Blond and Head of Research, Caroline Julian attended. - [Jo Swinson: Regulator for payday lenders will have 'much sharper teeth'](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/jo-swinson-regulator-payday-lenders-will-much-sharper-teeth/) - Inside Housing profiles the ResPublica Liberal Democrat Party Conference fringe on Payday Lending. - [Raising the Roof: A new social bar for housing associations](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/news/raising-roof-new-social-bar-housing-associations/) - Conference summary for Raising the Roof: A new social bar for housing associations Home House, London | 16 July, 2013 Introduction Housing associations have always been about more than building homes and picking up rent. As ‘social’ rather than ‘private’ landlords, a wider community role is essential to their identity. This role must now adapt - [The ResPublica Fringe at Liberal Democrat Party Conference](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/news/respublica-fringe-liberal-democrat-party-conference/) - ResPublica hosted a successful fringe programme at the Liberal Democrat conference in Glasgow. Our event, a panel discussion co-hosted with the Consumer Finance Association (CFA) posed the question: ‘Are payday loans ever in the consumer interest?’ The debate took place in the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre in Glasgow and was chaired by Stephen Knight - [‘Community energy’ can steer debate into the 21st century](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/community-energy-can-steer-debate-21st-century/) - The Financial Times (£) profiles ResPublica's Community Renewables Economy Green Paper. - [Payday loans are vital for the low wage earner](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/payday-loans-vital-low-wage-earner/) - ResPublica's Lorena Papamanci is profiled in Pay Day Loans Digest. - ['Miliband's focus is right, but his solution is economically illiterate'](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/milibands-focus-right-solution-economically-illiterate/) - Margareta Pagano highlights ResPublica's Community Renewables report in the Independent on Sunday. - [ResPublica Fringe Programme at Conservative Party Conference 2013](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/news/respublica-fringe-programme-conservative-party-conference-2013/) - All ResPublica Public Fringe events will be held inside the secure zone, at either Manchester Central or The Midland Hotel. Speakers include: Rt Hon Ken Clarke, Rt Hon Greg Clark MP, Rt Hon David Mundell MP, Rt Hon Stephen Dorrell MP, Alistair Burt MP, Nick Hurd MP, Chris White MP, Jacob Rees-Mogg MP, Robin Walker - [Jacob Rees-Mogg: English should tolerate Scots favouritism for sake of UK](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/jacob-rees-mogg-english-tolerate-scots-favouritism-sake-uk/) - The Telegraph reports on ResPublica's fringe event 'After the Scottish Referendum: The future of devolution’. - [Ken Clarke: EU obsession 'stops Tories winning'](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/ken-clarke-eu-obsession-stops-tories-winning/) - The BBC covers ResPublica's Conservative Party Conference fringe event 'To be or not to be in the EU?’. - [The ResPublica Fringe at Labour Party Conference](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/news/respublica-fringe-labour-party-conference/) - ResPublica hosted a successful fringe programme at the Labour Party conference in Brighton. Our public fringe event, a panel discussion co-hosted with the Consumer Finance Association (CFA) posed the question: ‘Are payday loans ever in the consumer interest?’ The debate took place in the Thistle Hotel, Brighton and was chaired by the Elaine Moore, Deputy - [Communities need to become energy producers as well as consumers](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/communities-need-become-energy-producers-well-consumers/) - ResPublica's Head of Research Caroline Julian asks if collective switching is enough. - [BBC Radio 4: Moral Maze discusses the ethics of abortion](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bbc-radio-4-moral-maze-discusses-ethics-abortion/) - Professor John Millbank joins the debate on abortion. - [The ResPublica Fringe at Conservative Party Conference](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/news/respublica-fringe-conservative-party-conference/) - ResPublica hosted a successful fringe programme of twelve events at the 2013 Conservative Party conference in Manchester. Sunday 29th September To open our fringe series at the Conservative party conference, we hosted a panel discussion with Constitution Society, which launched the debate: ‘After the Scottish Referendum: The future of devolution’. The discussion was chaired by - [Miliband pitches for a new centre ground in politics](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/miliband-pitches-new-centre-ground-politics/) - In his Labour Party conference speech, Ed Miliband planted himself firmly on the left. His big themes of confiscating land from greedy developers, controlling energy prices and imposing a higher minimum wage, have left commentators in near unanimity on that point. Predictably, The Daily Mail raised the spectre of a return to the “bad old - [Caroline Julian, Head of Research speaks at the Community Energy Conference 2013](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/caroline-julian-head-research-speaks-community-energy-conference-2013/) - [Introducing ResPublica's 2014 Party Conference Fringe Programme](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/news/introducing-respublicas-2014-party-conference-fringe-programme/) - In the run up to the 2015 General Election, ResPublica will be developing its own 'Manifesto', which will set out a series of powerful policy innovations necessary to create the Britain we all need. Our party conference programme will provide a platform for this thought leadership, and will feed directly into the development of ResPublica's - [ResPublica's Making It Mutual included in International Social Security Association report ](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/respublicas-making-mutual-included-international-social-security-association-report/) - Proposals made in ResPublica's Making It Mutual are included by the International Social Security Association's report on mutual societies, 'Mutual benefit societies: A tool for developing social protection worldwide, particularly in the health sector'. - [Week ahead at Westminster](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/week-ahead-westminster/) - The House of Lords debate of ResPublica's Holistic Mission report is profiled in the BBC's Week Ahead. - [Video & Transcript: House of Lords debate of Holistic Mission Report](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/video-transcript-house-lords-debate-holistic-mission-report/) - The debate of Holistic Mission begins at 14:31. To download a full transcript of the debate please click here, or click here for the original source. ResPublica is pleased to announce that its recent report, Holistic Mission: Social action and the Church of England, was debated in the House of Lords at 2.30pm on 21st - [Christian Today highlights Church's positive social action role](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/christian-today-highlights-churchs-positive-social-action-role/) - Christian Today discusses the House of Lords debate on ResPublica's Holistic Mission report. - [Lords debates Church of England](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/lords-debates-church-england/) - Coverage of the House of Lords debate of ResPublica's Holistic Mission Report. - [ResPublica's Community Renewables Economy is cited in Renewable Energy Installer Magazine](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/respublicas-community-renewables-economy-cited-renewable-energy-installer-magazine/) - ResPublica's research is included in the December edition of the renewables sector's leading magazine, Renewable Energy Installer. - [Sir Charlie Mayfield: In for an early Christmas present?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/sir-charlie-mayfield-early-christmas-present/) - ResPublica's Margareta Pagano discusses employee ownership in The Independent. - [Social Enterprise: Creating a hub for innovation in society](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/social-enterprise-creating-hub-innovation-society/) - ResPublica's Caroline Julian contributes to the New Statesman's roundtable 'Going for growth: how can we increase investment?'. - [Green levy cuts could threaten good energy market competition](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/green-levy-cuts-threaten-good-energy-market-competition/) - The government’s announcement to reduce energy bills by an average of £50 per household per year will temporarily be a welcome relief, but only for customers of the larger energy companies. The cuts to the Energy Company Obligation (ECO) insulation scheme, which will account for a £30-35 bill reduction, as with other green levies, apply - [ResPublica welcomes Co-operative Energy as partner for forthcoming project](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/news/respublica-welcomes-co-operative-energy-partner-forthcoming-project/) - ResPublica is pleased to announce that Co-operative Energy will be lead partners on ResPublica's forthcoming research project, 'Unlocking Finance and Investment for Community Energy’, due to commence in January 2014. Additional opportunities to partner with ResPublica on this project and surrounding activity are still open for third party organisations. The project will explore how untapped - [The new social investment tax relief is welcome, but it could go much further](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/new-social-investment-tax-relief-welcome-go-much/) - ResPublica's Caroline Julian writes for Conservative Home. - [Is workfare unfair?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/workfare-unfair/) - Phillip Blond joins the Guardian for a 5 Minute Debate. - [Taxing times: the disconnect between brand image and tax policies](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/taxing-times-disconnect-brand-image-tax-policies/) - The Guardian publishes an essay by John Mann MP, taken from ResPublica's latest publication 'The Virtue of Enterprise'. - [How business could regain trust](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/business-regain-trust/) - ResPublica's Lorena Papamanci writes for Conservative Home. - [It should be as easy to change bank as it is to change your mobile phone](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/easy-change-bank-change-mobile-phone/) - An essay in the Guardian by Andrea Leadsom MP, taken from ResPublica's latest publciation 'The Virtue of Enterprise'. - [Meet the new economy, it's the same as the old one](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/meet-new-economy-old-one/) - ResPublica fellow Simon Caulkin's contributes an essay from 'The Virtue of Enterprise' to the Guardian. - [It's time responsible companies committed to paying a decent wage](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/time-responsible-companies-committed-paying-decent-wage/) - The Guardian publishes Baroness Lister's essay taken from ResPublica's essay collection 'The Virtue of Enterprise'. - [Think Tank Calls For Values and Responsibility Based Bank and Corporate Governance](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/think-tank-calls-values-responsibility-based-bank-corporate-governance/) - The Economic Voice profiles ResPublica's publication 'The Virtue of Enterprise'. - [Rebuilding Britain’s Institutional Fabric: The transformative role of the Church of England](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/rebuilding-britains-institutional-fabric-transformative-role-church-england/) - Caroline Julian and James Noyes write for Crucible. - [The Guardian serialises ResPublica's latest publication 'The Virtue of Enterprise'.](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/guardian-serialises-respublicas-latest-publication-virtue-enterprise/) - Essays from ResPublica's latest 'The Virtue of Enterprise' are now available on the Guardian website. - [Towards a Responsible Pay Structure](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/towards-responsible-pay-structure/) - Compass publishes Baroness Lister's essay from ResPublica's 'The Virtue of Enterprise'. - [9 things we learned from the Reform Alliance’s ‘monster meeting’](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/9-things-learned-reform-alliances-monster-meeting/) - ResPublica's Phillip Blond speaks at the Reform Alliance conference in Dublin, Ireland. - [Jury is still out on whether Reform Alliance can fill the political party gap](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/jury-still-whether-reform-alliance-can-fill-political-party-gap/) - Phillip Blond, Director of ResPublica, speaks at the Reform Alliance Conference in Dublin. - [ResPublica's Phillip Blond finds an audience at the Reform Alliance Conference in Dublin, Ireland](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/respublicas-phillip-blond-finds-audience-reform-alliance-conference-dublin-ireland/) - Press coverage of Phillip Blond speaking at the Reform Alliance Conference in Dublin. - [To fix our broken energy market, we need Help to Supply](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/fix-broken-energy-market-need-help-supply/) - Caroline Julian on why the government should do more to help communities, local authorities and businesses not only produce but supply their own power, in the New Statesman. - [Does the investment industry really provide value to investors?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/investment-industry-really-provide-value-investors/) - In a video interview with Investment Week, Phillip Blond calls for tax breaks given to ISAs and pensions to be scrapped. - [ResPublica Welcomes Government's Community Energy Strategy](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/news/respublica-welcomes-governments-community-energy-strategy/) - The Government has today published the UK’s first ever Community Energy Strategy. ResPublica welcomes the move, which has the potential to dramatically scale up community energy across the UK. ResPublica's report, The Community Renewables Economy, highlighted the importance of 'joint venture' models in enabling community energy to start up and scale up. Published in September - [20 Miles More: ResPublica supports a new campaign to extend HS2 to Liverpool](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/20-miles-respublica-supports-new-campaign-extend-hs2-liverpool/) - Read the 20 Miles More letter here. The signees: Phillip Blond, Director, ResPublica Tom Cannon, Professor of Strategic Development, University of Liverpool Management School Earl of Derby, President of Liverpool, Knowsley and Sefton Chambers of Commerce Sir Peter Hall, Professor of Planning and Regeneration, The Bartlett, UCL Tom Morris, Founder, Home Bargains Jim Teasdale, Chief - [Commission on Youth Interview Series: David Burrowes MP](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/commission-youth-interview-series-david-burrowes-mp/) - Theme: Family Structure & Community Support Adam Bradford (20) talks to David Burrowes about family breakdown, lack of opportunities and material disadvantage. See Also: Commission on Youth Interview Series: Tim Loughton MP Commission on Youth Interview Series: Shaun Bailey Commission on Youth Interview Series: Kate Green MP Commission on Youth Interview Series: David Burrowes MP - [CBI calls for UK tax breaks to boost use of equity finance](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/cbi-calls-uk-tax-breaks-boost-use-equity-finance/) - ResPublica's 'Markets for the Many' is profiled in the Financial Times. - [BSA comment on the launch of the ResPublica report ‘Markets for the Many’](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bsa-comment-launch-respublica-report-markets-many/) - The Economic Voice profiles ResPublica's publication 'Markets for the Many'. - [Think tank calls community reinvestment act](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/think-tank-calls-community-reinvestment-act/) - [Community finance can rejuvenate business and support communities](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/community-finance-can-rejuvenate-business-support-communities/) - ResPublica's publication 'Markets for the Many' is profiled in the Guardian. - [Government should encourage SME lending, says thinktank](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/government-encourage-sme-lending-says-thinktank/) - ResPublica's Markets for the Many recommendations are profiled by Blue & Green Tomorrow. - [Why we need more building societies and mutuals](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/need-building-societies-mutuals/) - ResPublica's Adam Wildman and David Fagleman write for Conservative Home. - [Marriage, union or contract? The flawed ResPublica case against equality](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/marriage-union-contract-flawed-respublica-case-equality/) - Ekklesia critiques ResPublica's Marriage paper. - [Markets for the Many: Cathy Jamieson MP launches ResPublica's latest publication](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/markets-many-cathy-jamieson-mp-launches-respublicas-latest-publication/) - ResPublica's latest publication, 'Markets for the Many: How civic finance can open up markets and widen access', was launched by Cathy Jamieson MP, Shadow Financial Secretary to the Treasury in front of a full audience in Portcullis House on Tuesday 4th February 2014. About the report: The Coalition Government has made financial reform an essential - [ResPublica triggers banking reform debate](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/respublica-triggers-banking-reform-debate/) - Mortgage Introducer profiles ResPublica's latest green paper publication, 'Markets for the Many'. - [Building societies ‘can plug lending gap’ to SMEs](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/building-societies-can-plug-lending-gap-smes/) - ResPublica's latest publication 'Markets for the Many' is profiled in The Times. - [Post-liberal politics and the alternative of mutualising social security](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/post-liberal-politics-alternative-mutualising-social-security/) - Adrian Pabst and John Milbank argue against the social and economic liberalism that has dominated post-war Britain, in favour of a more mutualist vision. - [United We Fall: Roger Scruton on Scottish Independence](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/united-fall-roger-scruton-scottish-independence/) - Roger Scruton argues for a voice for the English in the debate over Scottish independence. "As an Englishman I naturally ask why my interests in the matter have never been taken into account. - [People Empowerment - The British Way](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/people-empowerment-british-way/) - Head of Research, Caroline Julian, writes for Romanian publication Energynomics - [What David Cameron's Conservatives must do now to earn voters' trust](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/david-camerons-conservatives-must-now-earn-voters-trust/) - ResPublica Director Phillip Blond gives his views on what went wrong at Eastleigh. - [ResPublica's Phillip Blond discusses the possibility of Ukrainian conflict spreading into Europe](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/respublicas-phillip-blond-discusses-possibility-ukrainian-conflict-spreading-europe/) - Phillip Blond joins Paul Mason on Channel 4 News to discuss the conflict in Ukraine, and the danger of war in Europe. - [“Responsible Recovery” report](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/responsible-recovery-report/) - Rochdale online on ResPublica's new report. - [La politique entre impuissance et scandales](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/la-politique-entre-impuissance-et-scandales/) - Phillip Blond is featured in LesEchos as he shares his views on the Big Society. - [Loosen restrictions on building societies to help SMEs](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/loosen-restrictions-building-societies-help-smes/) - Co-operative News profiles ResPublica's latest green paper publication, 'Markets for the Many'. - ['Vital we create debt solutions in face of adversity'](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/vital-create-debt-solutions-face-adversity/) - Key points in ResPublica's latest green paper, 'Risk Waiver' are highlighted in Mortgage Strategy. - [Catalogue debt is bigger problem than payday loans - FT](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/catalogue-debt-bigger-problem-payday-loans-ft/) - ResPublica's research into alternative finance is featured in the Financial Times. - [ResPublica submits evidence to the Banking Standards Review](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/news/respublica-submits-evidence-banking-standards-review/) - ResPublica recently submitted evidence to Sir Richard Lambert’s Banking Standards Review. Set-up in response to the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards, the review will create a new independent organisation to help raise the standards of competence and behaviour in the banking sector. In our submission, we stress the need for the new body to set-out - [Liberalism now feels inadequate in this new age of insecurity](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/liberalism-now-feels-inadequate-new-age-insecurity/) - New Statesman on a new era of post-liberalism and Phillip Blond's Red Tory. - [ResPublica submits evidence to the Lyons Housing Review](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/press-releases/respublica-submits-evidence-lyons-housing-review/) - ResPublica recently submitted evidence to the independent review, carried out by Sir Michael Lyons as part of the Labour Party's Policy Review. The Commission will draw up a road map that will set out the changes to housing and planning policy required to deliver the new homes and communities post-2015. In our submission we made - [Liverpool Mayor Backs '20 Miles More' HS2 Campaign](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/liverpool-mayor-backs-20-miles-hs2-campaign/) - The '20 Miles More' campaign to extend the HS2 line to Liverpool has been supported by the Mayor of Liverpool, Joe Anderson. - [Crackdown on payday loans may boost black market, warns MP](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/crackdown-payday-loans-may-boost-black-market-warns-mp/) - ResPublica's roundtable discussion on payday lending and financial exclusion is featured in City AM. - [Promoting cooperatives would benefit Scotland](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/promoting-cooperatives-benefit-scotland/) - David Fagleman discusses the role that cooperatives and mutual structures can play in shaping Scotland's future in SCVO. - [ResPublica's Phillip Blond speaks to LBC's Iain Dale about the Maria Miller affair](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/respublicas-phillip-blond-speaks-lbcs-iain-dale-maria-miller-affair/) - [Bureaucratic Consequences: Chris Grayling's Book Ban and the Failings of Policy](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bureaucratic-consequences-chris-graylings-book-ban-failings-policy/) - ResPublica's Rosie Olliver discusses the consequences behind Chris Grayling's "book ban" in the Huffington Post. - [Renewable energy could cut energy bills – but the government must help](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/renewable-energy-cut-energy-bills-government-must-help/) - ResPublica's green paper, 'The Community Renewables Economy' is featured in The Guardian. - [Faith, hope and Cameron's dog-whistle Christianity](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/faith-hope-camerons-dog-whistle-christianity/) - Another ResPublica report is featured in the Guardian. - [The Liberal Reconfiguration: Thoughts inspired by the One Nation Labour conference](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/liberal-reconfiguration-thoughts-inspired-one-nation-labour-conference/) - Liberal Democrat Voice on ResPublica Director Phillip Blond. - [Community energy sector faces financial barriers](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/community-energy-sector-faces-financial-barriers/) - ResPublica's latest report on community energy is featured in Co-operative Energy News. - [Press Release: 'Community Energy: Unlocking Finance and Investment'](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/press-releases/press-release-community-energy-unlocking-finance-investment/) - A new publication by the influential think tank ResPublica reveals that the major banks are failing to lend to community energy businesses. In Germany, around half of all loans for existing community energy groups come from co-operative banks, and 34% through state aid. In the UK, such businesses struggle to achieve commercial bank loans. The - [Crowdfunding helps community energy groups as bank lending vanishes](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/crowdfunding-helps-community-energy-groups-bank-lending-vanishes/) - The report, “Community Energy: Unlocking Finance and Investment”, argues that crowdfunding has now opened up an opportunity to bridge the funding gap. - [People power needs crowd control](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/people-power-needs-crowd-control/) - [Treasury and financial watchdogs can help crowdfunding ‘thrive’](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/treasury-financial-watchdogs-can-help-crowdfunding-thrive/) - ResPublica's Caroline Julian is featured in Blue & Green Tomorrow. - [Crowdfunding could break stranglehold of the 'big six' energy firms](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/crowdfunding-break-stranglehold-big-six-energy-firms/) - Ramsay Dunning, General Manager at Co-operative Energy writes for the Guardian on ResPublica's latest publication. - [Big banks “failing to lend cash for community energy”](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/big-banks-failing-lend-cash-community-energy/) - ResPublica's Head of Research, Caroline Julian, is featured in Energy Live News. - [Campaign for a social economy: We have a critical window to influence party manifestos](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/campaign-social-economy-critical-window-influence-party-manifestos/) - ResPublica's Director, Phillip Blond, comments on how to strengthen the Social Value Act in the Guardian. - [Press Release: Power to the People: The mutual future of our National Health Service](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/press-releases/press-release-power-people-mutual-future-national-health-service/) - Think tank ResPublica calls for radical overhaul of the UK health service tackling the lifestyle and long-term conditions that will cause a £19 billion deficit and bankrupt the NHS in a decade A surge in complex chronic illnesses such as obesity, cancer and dementia, coupled with an ageing population and tightening health budgets, mean that - [CCGs should make more use of mutualism](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/1826/) - ResPublica's David Fagleman and Adam Wildman are featured in the Health Service Journal. - ['The NHS will be broke in a decade unless integration happens'](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/nhs-will-broke-decade-unless-integration-happens/) - ResPublica's David Fagleman and Adam Wildman propose a new model of healthcare that embraces mutualism in Conservative Home. - [Europe's ticking obesity timebomb](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/europes-ticking-obesity-timebomb/) - ResPublica's report on NHS reform, 'Power to the People', is profiled in the Mail Online. - [NHS privatisation isn't working, it’s time for a more mutual solution](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/nhs-privatisation-isnt-working-time-mutual-solution/) - NHS privatisation isn't working, it’s time for a more mutual solution 'Mutuals are best placed to initiate a system of healthcare that delivers personalised, holistic care in a cost-effective manner', says Adam Wildman. - [ResPublica commences new project in partnership with the Core Cities group](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/news/respublica-commences-new-project-partnership-core-cities-group/) - ResPublica has partnered with the Core Cities group to explore and present a fresh vision for the future shape of England's public services, and its inextricable link to local economic growth. The unique research project will engage with the cities at the centre of England's eight largest urban areas to identify the fiscal gains to - [George Osborne to force banks to promote alternative lenders](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/george-osborne-force-banks-promote-alternative-lenders/) - The Telegraph profiles the Treasury's proposals. - [We British do not have to apologise](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/british-not-apologise/) - ResPublica's Phillip Blond is interviewed by Austrian broadsheet Kurier. - [ResPublica calls for introduction of loan insurance](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/respublica-calls-introduction-loan-insurance/) - The Mortgage Introducer profiles ResPublica's paper on debt waiver. - [Should bankers be virtuous?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bankers-virtuous/) - [Bankers 'should adopt ethics oath'](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bankers-adopt-ethics-oath/) - Bankers should have to swear an oath of good service in the same way as doctors, a think-tank said today. - [Bankers must swear a “Bankers Oath” to turn back the tide of scandal](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bankers-must-swear-bankers-oath-turn-back-tide-scandal/) - Think tank ResPublica calls for the introduction of an oath for bankers similar to the Hippocratic Oath in order to raise accountability and standards in banking. - [Bankers should have to swear an oath after scandals, says think tank](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bankers-swear-oath-scandals-says-think-tank/) - The Forex scandal is just one of the causes of the public's faltering trust in bankers (Source: Reuters). - [Should bankers have to swear an oath? Sir Richard Lambert seems to think so](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bankers-swear-oath-sir-richard-lambert-seems-think/) - Head of review body into banking standards to launch report which will promote need for an oath for the banking industry. - [Bankers should take a Hippocratic oath to restore virtue to the financial sector](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bankers-take-hippocratic-oath-restore-virtue-financial-sector/) - A new report calls for bankers to make a public commitment to consider their social impacts and prioritise customers' needs. - [Bankers should swear oath of good service, says thinktank](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bankers-swear-oath-good-service-says-thinktank/) - ResPublica suggests wording that includes the duty to confront impropriety in an industry 'lacking clearly defined social purpose'. - [Lucinda's teasing over new party is becoming rather tiresome](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/lucindas-teasing-new-party-becoming-rather-tiresome/) - Lucinda Creighton has become a terrible tease. Yet again, the former Fine Gael junior minister is dropping hints about turning her Reform Alliance into a fully fledged political party. - [Bankers Should Take Hippocratic Oath Like Doctors, Says Thinktank](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bankers-take-hippocratic-oath-like-doctors-says-thinktank/) - Thinktank ResPublica is pushing for bankers to take a moral oath – like the Hippocratic Oath sworn by doctors – following the spate of financial scandals that have rocked global markets over the last few years. - [Bankers: Call For 'Oath' To Stop More Scandals](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bankers-call-oath-stop-scandals/) - A think tank believes bankers should be expected to swear an oath in which they promise to behave properly, in the same way as doctors. - [‘Make bankers swear oath to do good like doctors’](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/make-bankers-swear-oath-good-like-doctors/) - Call for stronger ethics in banking comes after a series of high-profile scandals in banking sector. - [Bankers are urged to do their duty to employer and country](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bankers-urged-duty-employer-country/) - They have been branded “socially useless”, cast as the world’s villains and have even tried to claim that they were “doing God’s work”. Now, six years after the financial crisis led to a global recession, bankers have been urged to clean up their act by swearing an oath to serve customers “in an ethical manner”. - [Bankers 'must swear oath' after scandals, says report](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bankers-must-swear-oath-scandals-says-report/) - An oath for bankers should be introduced to raise accountability and standards in banking, said the think tank ResPublica. - [A Hippocratic Oath for Bankers?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/hippocratic-oath-bankers/) - More regulation won’t work, says a UK think tank and suggests bankers take the moral high ground. - [David Fagleman: When it comes to the banks, financial stability isn’t enough](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/david-fagleman-comes-banks-financial-stability-isnt-enough/) - [Bankers should 'swear an oath' to raise standards, says think-tank](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bankers-swear-oath-raise-standards-says-think-tank/) - ResPublica have drawn up an oath which they believe bankers should be made to swear on after a series of banking scandals. - [Sir Richard Lambert launches banking report](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/sir-richard-lambert-launches-banking-report/) - The banking industry must undergo further reform before it can introduce an equivalent of the Hippocratic oath, Sir Richard Lambert has said. - [Bankers Called On To Swear An Oath Not To Rip Off Their Customers](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bankers-called-swear-oath-not-rip-off-customers/) - Bankers should swear an oath "never to harm" their customers in the same way as doctors do, a think-tank has said. - [Bankers Should Be Made To Take 'Moral Oath'](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bankers-made-take-moral-oath/) - A think tank proposes financial workers should make a pledge about their behaviour similar to the Hippocratic Oath of doctors. - [Why should EU migrants receive benefits?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/eu-migrants-receive-benefits/) - [Beheading bankers – and other ways to restore public trust](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/beheading-bankers-ways-restore-public-trust/) - In medieval Catalonia the good behaviour of bankers was deemed so important that if they went bankrupt, they were publicly disgraced by town criers, and given nothing but bread and water to eat until creditors were paid off. If, after a year, the bankers had not paid the depositors, they would be beheaded and their - [A bankers’ oath](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bankers-oath/) - What should be in bankers’ version of the Hippocratic Oath? - [Politics of Mr Blond who met the blonde](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/politics-mr-blond-met-blonde/) - The secret moralists of the Reform Alliance will have found a lot to admire in Phillip Blond, says John Drennan. - [Big Jim Byrnes hits the road after big pay day from Virginia Nemeth](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/big-jim-byrnes-hits-road-big-pay-day-virginia-nemeth/) - The Sydney Morning Herald discussed the idea of a banker's equivalent of the Hippocratic Oath. - [Phillip Blond discusses trust in politicians with George Alagiah on BBC GMT](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/phillip-blond-discusses-trust-politicians-george-alagiah-bbc-gmt/) - [Ecclesiastical Investment says that churches can assist in ethical banking](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/ecclesiastical-investment-says-churches-can-assist-ethical-banking/) - The Church Times highlights ResPublica's research and the Archbishop of Canterbury's work towards a more responsible capitalism. - [Lucinda Creighton's teasing over new party is becoming rather tiresome](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/lucinda-creightons-teasing-new-party-becoming-rather-tiresome/) - Reform Alliance discusses its future with Phillip Blond, Director at ResPublica. - [Future perfect: Business Day Online](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/future-perfect-business-day-online/) - Phillip Blond, ResPublica's Director, discusses the banker's oath. - [Know any local banks that get the community? Invent them](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/know-local-banks-get-community-invent/) - Nearly 9 million people miss out on the benefits of banking, over 1 million adults in the UK fall victim to the crippling interest rates of the payday loan shark, 68% of low income housholds have no savings and small businesses are starved of credit options. David Fagleman from Respublica explores a new approach. - [ResPublica announces Party Conference 2014 Fringe Programme](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/news/respublica-announces-party-conference-2014-fringe-programme/) - ResPublica is pleased to announce its 2014 party conference fringe programme. We will be running 33 fringe events across the three main party conferences this year, challenging Britain’s thought leaders on key topics of our time. Labour Fringe Programme Sunday 21st - Wednesday 24th Sept. 2014 Conservative Fringe Programme Sunday 28th Sept. - Wednesday 1st - [‘Devo Manc' call for devolution to Manchester](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/devo-manc-call-devolution-manchester/) - MANCHESTER should be given income-tax raising powers and complete control of spending within five years as a blueprint for granting full devolution to English cities, a think tank said. - [Devo-Manc? Northern Cities Eye Greater Powers](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/devo-manc-northern-cities-eye-greater-powers/) - English cities look north to the Scottish referendum campaign and seek to wrest more control over their finances from Westminster. - [ResPublica: give Manchester a devo-max deal](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/respublica-give-manchester-devo-max-deal/) - [Updated: Greater Manchester hints at mayoral model](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/updated-greater-manchester-hints-mayoral-model/) - A radical plan to give Greater Manchester more control of its finances and income tax raising powers in return for adopting the elected mayor model is being put forward to the government. - [Plan for Manchester devolution ‘offers independence blueprint’](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/plan-manchester-devolution-offers-independence-blueprint/) - MANCHESTER should be given income-tax raising powers and complete control of spending within five years as a blueprint for granting full devolution to English cities, a think tank has claimed. - [Mancunians draft in Scouser to devise independence for Manchester](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/mancunians-draft-scouser-devise-independence-manchester/) - [U.K. Should Devolve More Fiscal Power to Cities, Report Says](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/u-k-devolve-fiscal-power-cities-report-says/) - [Manchester 'should get everything Scotland gets' in devolution deal](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/manchester-get-everything-scotland-gets-devolution-deal/) - Phillip Blond, a key adviser to David Cameron and the man behind his Big Society policy, says we must have control of all our £22.5bn public spending by the end of the decade. - [Northern cities 'should lead devolution' in the UK](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/northern-cities-lead-devolution-uk/) - Manchester should be given income-tax raising powers and complete control of spending within five years as a blueprint for granting full devolution to English cities, a think tank said. - [Manchester 'should lead devolution', ResPublica report argues](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/manchester-lead-devolution-respublica-report-argues/) - Manchester should be given income-tax raising powers and complete control of spending within five years, a centre-right think tank has said. - [Call to devolve powers to English cities](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/call-devolve-powers-english-cities/) - ['Devo-Manc': Manchester should be given devolution powers like Scotland's potential 'devo-max', says think tank](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/devo-manc-manchester-given-devolution-powers-like-scotlands-potential-devo-max-says-think-tank/) - A report on devolved powers across English councils comes days before the Scottish referendum on independence. - [Leader of Sunderland City Council on 'Devo Manc'](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/leader-sunderland-city-council-devo-manc/) - [Ocado socialism? - Stewart Wood on employee share ownership](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/ocado-socialism-stewart-wood-employee-share-ownership/) - [Bristol mayor joins calls for tax devolution to cities](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/bristol-mayor-joins-calls-tax-devolution-cities/) - Bristol mayor George Ferguson has called for cities to have greater control of taxes, as well as having greater autonomy and financial self-sufficiency. - [Insight - Ignored and fed up, UK regions call for Scottish-style devolution](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/insight-ignored-fed-uk-regions-call-scottish-style-devolution/) - [The Divided Kingdom: who else wants to break away from the UK?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/divided-kingdom-else-wants-break-away-uk/) - Self-determination isn’t just a Scottish craze – who else dreams of breaking away from the UK? - [Devolution after the referendum terms of reference](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/devolution-referendum-terms-reference/) - The Political and Constitutional Reform Committee has agreed to hold an inquiry looking at the future of devolution in the United Kingdom, in the light of the referendum result. - [Committee Chair calls for Government to devolve financial powers in England](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/committee-chair-calls-government-devolve-financial-powers-england/) - English devolution should be to local government says Clive Betts MP, Chair of the Communities and Local Government Committee. - [Phillip Blond on : 'Taxation, education: How does the majority supporting ÖVP would behave?'](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/phillip-blond-taxation-education-majority-supporting-ovp-behave/) - [Scotland Decides](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/scotland-decides/) - Phillip Blond on the Scottish Referendum (3:43.40). - [Manchester Devolution: Council bosses in negotiations with Treasury after Scottish referendum result](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/manchester-devolution-council-bosses-negotiations-treasury-scottish-referendum-result/) - Greater Manchester’s leaders are already locked in negotiations with the Treasury after devolution for the region took a giant stride forward in the wake of the Scottish Referendum Result. - [Liverpool mayor takes HS2 campaign to party conferences](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/liverpool-mayor-takes-hs2-campaign-party-conferences/) - High speed rail crucial to Liverpool's future. - [Andy Burnham, Shadow Health Secretary, endorses ResPublica's recommendation](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/andy-burnham-shadow-health-secretary-endorses-respublicas-recommendation/) - A Labour government could put Monitor in charge of overseeing the financial sustainability of whole health economies and driving integration between different organisations, Andy Burnham has told HSJ. - [Devolved powers for northern cities](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/devolved-powers-northern-cities/) - ResPublica's recommendations from Devo Max - Devo Manc report are implemented by Government. - [What Is UKIP’s Economic Philosophy for the U.K.?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/ukips-economic-philosophy-u-k/) - ResPublica Director Phillip Blond examines the economic philosophy of the UK Independence Party as they take their first elected Parliamentary Seat. He speaks with Guy Johnson on “The Pulse. - [Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg welcomes ResPublica's devolution plan DevoManc](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/deputy-prime-minister-nick-clegg-welcomes-respublicas-devolution-plan-devomanc/) - [How devolution to Manchester could work](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/devolution-manchester-work/) - Jonathan Carr-West of the Local Government Information Unit reviews Respublica’s recent report. - [How devolution to Manchester could work](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/devolution-manchester-work-2/) - Jonathan Carr-West of the Local Government Information Unit reviews Respublica's recent report. - [Should all English cities be more like Manchester?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/english-cities-like-manchester/) - [ResPublica's #DevoManc report adopted by Government](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/respublicas-devomanc-report-adopted-government/) - Greater Manchester and Govt reach trailblazing agreement, based on ResPublica's report DevoMax - DevoManc. - [Alistair Darling Resignation: A Future in Football Management or International Aid?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/listair-darling-resignation-future-football-management-international-aid/) - [Do the people of Manchester really want devolution?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/people-manchester-really-want-devolution/) - [The north of England is getting more power, whether the people like it or not](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/north-england-getting-power-whether-people-like-not/) - [Reformed short-term credit market needed, report claims](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/reformed-short-term-credit-market-needed-report-claims/) - [Radical reform needed to transform payday lending](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/radical-reform-needed-transform-payday-lending/) - [Credit Ladder: Payday lenders to compete on price comparison websites](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/credit-ladder-payday-lenders-compete-price-comparison-websites/) - [Credit Ladder: ResPublica supports payday loan charges cap announced by FCA](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/credit-ladder-respublica-supports-payday-loan-charges-cap-announced-fca/) - [Credit Ladder: Martin Wheatley 'only ethical lenders will be allowed to be profitable'](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/credit-ladder-martin-wheatley-ethical-lenders-will-allowed-profitable/) - [Phillip Blond to open think tank branch in Liverpool after slamming Government for 'ignoring' the city](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/phillip-blond-open-think-tank-branch-liverpool-slamming-government-ignoring-city/) - The political thinker also wants to see the city launch a 'HS3' line. - [Phillip Blond: We need an ethical intervention to stem the flow of banking scandals](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/phillip-blond-need-ethical-intervention-stem-flow-banking-scandals/) - Phillip Blond interviewed on BBC News (11:40). - [Distributism Isn’t Outdated](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/distributism-isnt-outdated/) - Chesterton offers a non-statist vision for economic and social change that's still relevant in the age of the iPhone. - [A History of Ideas](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/media-coverage/history-ideas/) - Now available on iPlayer: Giles Fraser on Religious Freedom with Phillip Blond. - [ResPublica author to give evidence to Treasury Select Committee](https://www.respublica.org.uk/press-centre/news/respublica-author-give-evidence-treasury-select-committee/) - Professor Gathergood was invited to give evidence following the launch of the report in Parliament on 3rd November. The Committee will hear from a small panel of experts including Joanna Elson OBE, Chief Executive, Money Advice Trust, and Richard Lloyd, Executive Director, Which?, on the treatment of financial services consumers. Professor Gathergood’s evidence will build ## Our Work - [A Modest Proposal for the Restoration of Neighbourhoods](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/a-modest-proposal-for-the-restoration-of-neighbourhoods/) - After 50 years of failed regeneration programmes, we urge for a radical shift toward community and place-based ownership of land and assets. - [Lifelong Education Institute](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/projects/lifelong-education-commission/) - The LEI has its own dedicated website, where all research and updates can be found: www.lifelongeducation.uk History In February of 2021, former Universities Minister the Rt. Hon. Chris Skidmore MP, launched the Lifelong Education Commission, to recommend how the multiple and varied barriers to lifelong learning can be removed, what future investment is needed to - [Evolving Together: Enabling The Hybrid Generation To Flourish at Work](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/evolving-together-enabling-the-hybrid-generation-to-flourish-at-work/) - The term, the hybrid generation, refers to those who began their working life just as or just before the pandemic struck, or subsequently as lockdown measures began to influence working practices. To a large extent the entirety of their careers to date have been shaped by hybrid and remote working, even including those who have - [Hungry to Learn: Lifelong Learning Pathways for the Agri-food Sector](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/hungry-to-learn-lifelong-learning-pathways-for-the-agri-food-sector/) - This report by the Lifelong Education Institute, kindly supported by Harper Adams University and the School of Sustainable Food and Farming, addresses the opportunities and challenges facing skills provision in the agri-food sector. It explores how innovative structures of learning and skills training can help generate and attract the learner talent that the sector needs - [Behaving to Learn: Best practice lessons for the behavioural turn in English schools policy](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/behaving-to-learn/) - This report explores how effective approaches to behaviour management can lead to better learning outcomes for pupils in the English comprehensive school system. It examines the behavioural policies, learning outcomes, and contextual institutional characteristics of 150 UK non-faith, non-selective state schools, representing the best-, median-, and worst-performing comprehensive schools in the 2022 Progress 8 rankings. - [Behavioural Standards and Learning Outcomes in the English Comprehensive School System](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/behavioural-standards-and-learning-outcomes-in-the-english-comprehensive-school-system/) - This report explores how effective approaches to behaviour management can lead to better learning outcomes for pupils in the English comprehensive school system. It examines the behavioural policies, learning outcomes, and contextual institutional characteristics of 150 UK non-faith, non-selective state schools, representing the best-, median-, and worst-performing comprehensive schools in the 2022 Progress 8 rankings. - [The Right Response: Conservative ideas to tackle perennial poverty](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/the-right-response-conservative-ideas-to-tackle-perennial-poverty/) - This Essay Collection has been made possible with the kind support of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and has been edited by Dr Christopher Fear (Lecturer in Politics and International Relation, University of Hull). An excerpt from the foreword written by Dr Christopher Fear and Phillip Blond (Director, ResPublica) follows: 'While our view is that political - [Developing Industry-Expert Teaching for Higher Skills](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/developing-industry-expert-teaching-for-higher-skills/) - This report was produced by the Lifelong Education Commission, in partnership with the Chartered Institution for Further Education There is a broad consensus across the political spectrum that we need to radically improve the quantity and quality of technical and vocational education to address the skills shortages that are holding the UK economy back. - [Playing by the Rules: The Governance of English Football](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/playing-by-the-rules-the-governance-of-english-football/) - This report has been produced on behalf of ‘For Fans Too’ a supporters-first campaign advocating for improved governance and regulation of football in England. It follows on from the fan-led review into English football governance carried out by former sports minister Tracey Crouch MP and published in November 2021. It builds on the central recommendation - [ESOL for Skills](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/esol-for-skills/) - This report from the Lifelong Education Commission argues that, in the face of an acute skills crisis in Britain, better provision of English for Speakers of Other Languages – ESOL – should now be a key strategy for tackling skills gaps and skills shortages. While in the past the delivery of ESOL has been framed - [UK Trade Policy & Animal Welfare](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/uk-trade-policy-animal-welfare/) - In the post-Brexit drive to establish the UK’s trading strategy, the nation has a chance to firm up its ambition to be a global leader in best practice in animal welfare in the agri-food sector, helping to drive up standards around the world via its trade policies. However, in the new trade deals signed to-date - [The Role of Microcredentials in Modular Learning](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/the-role-of-microcredentials-in-modular-learning/) - In this report, the Lifelong Education Commission seeks to explore the emerging role of microcredentials in modular learning and how a common understanding can enable alternative pathways to higher level qualifications in the UK. The UK Government’s focus on modular, flexible, lifelong learning is designed to address the skills needed to drive higher levels of - [Closing the Enforcement Gap](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/closing-the-enforcement-gap/) - Big tech markets have become highly monopolised. This is a major growth-inhibiting and innovation-limiting issue for smaller tax-paying tech firms in the UK. Government recognition and awareness of this issue seems almost entirely absent, which perhaps is why UK enforcement and legislation is lagging other countries. UK firms seeking to get the law enforced also - [The Future of Higher Technical Education in England: Expanding Opportunity for All](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/the-future-of-higher-technical-education-in-england-expanding-opportunity-for-all/) - This report takes a detailed look at the poor take-up of higher technical education (HTE) in England – often referred to as the ‘missing middle’ or ‘forgotten half’ of the English education landscape, and the challenges this presents to the Government’s ambitions for improving productivity and levelling up economic performance within and between regions. It - [Learning Ecosystems: A new model for levelling up skills in Doncaster](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/learning-ecosystems-a-new-model-for-levelling-up-skills-in-doncaster/) - This report seeks to explore how a place-based approach to education and skills can transform lifelong learning. This builds on the experience and practice of partners in Doncaster to establish a local ‘Talent and Innovation Ecosystem’. Raising skill levels is a key driver behind Doncaster’s strategy to level up deep-seated inequalities in the borough, improve - [Skills and Levelling Up Manifesto](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/skills-and-levelling-up-manifesto/) - The Government has released its Levelling Up the United Kingdom White Paper, setting out a series of policy aims to empower and regenerate the ‘left behind’ areas of the UK. The proposed introduction of Education Investment Areas, the UK National Academy, new Institutes of Technology, and the Unit for Future Skills, among other provisions, are - [The Pathway to Lifelong Education](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/the-pathway-to-lifelong-education/) - The UK has a longstanding skills problem which is impacting on economic growth. Adult participation in learning has declined, particularly among part-time students, while fewer people in work are taking up training to reskill or upskill. More generally, there is a shortfall in vocational and higher technical qualifications. In this first report, the Lifelong Education - [Conservative anti-poverty month](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/projects/conservative-anti-poverty-month/) - ResPublica, with the support of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, are organising a Conservative anti-poverty month, with five online panels spread over four weeks in June, welcoming Conservative MPs and prominent academics. The seminars will aim to platform and discuss centre-right ideas for tackling, ameliorating, and ending the different types of poverty that continue to blight the country. - [Smart Solar at Scale: Meeting the UK’s net-zero emissions and clean growth targets](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/smart-solar-at-scale-meeting-the-uks-net-zero-emissions-and-clean-growth-targets/) - This report examines the current regulatory and legislative framework that governs the UK’s energy system, with a focus on renewable sources of energy and the issues that arise from the status quo on power generation and distribution. It makes the case for scaling up the development and implementation of smart solar and battery storage technologies - [Size doesn't matter: The arguments for place-based devolution](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/size-doesnt-matter/) - The long-awaited Devolution White Paper is expected to set out the new Conservative Government’s ambitions for extending new freedoms and responsibilities to the local state. This report examines the implications of future devolution for districts and smaller unitary councils, and the potential role that they can play in responding to the challenges of Covid-19 and - [How to improve the Health and Wellbeing of the UK population](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/how-to-improve-the-health-and-wellbeing-of-the-uk-population/) - You can find a summary of our report here. The coronavirus crisis has highlighted two things: the UK’s frontline NHS and care staff are skilled and selfless; the system in which they work had serious flaws going into the pandemic and will be even more exposed coming out of the crisis. We owe it to - [How a Minimum Floor Price on tobacco can achieve better policy objectives in Scotland](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/how-a-minimum-floor-price-on-tobacco-can-achieve-better-policy-objectives-in-scotland/) - This report examines whether a minimum floor price for tobacco can achieve better policy objectives in Scotland, including public health outcomes. A choice-modelling exercise, with a representative sample of over 1,000 adult smokers in Scotland has been conducted to test the extent to which the price of tobacco influences smoking behaviours. The findings of this - [Don't Breathe In: Bridging the Asbestos Safety Gap](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/dont-breathe-in-bridging-the-asbestos-safety-gap/) - This report is part of our UK-wide campaign 'Airtight on Asbestos' you can find the full report here. Sometimes a danger can be everywhere and appear nowhere at all. Since the turn of the millennium, the UK has lived with the increasingly unknown dangers of one regrettable by-product of the Industrial Revolution: its legacy dependence - [Skills for jobs that don't yet exist: A new system for the fourth industrial revolution](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/skills-for-jobs-that-dont-yet-exist-a-new-system-for-the-fourth-industrial-revolution/) - A key issue for the UK’s economy is how we meet the challenge of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the future of work. Central to this challenge is the question of skills, an essential driver of productivity and growth. Education and skills are the number one priority for employers that are struggling to find the - [Airtight on Asbestos](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/projects/airtight-on-asbestos/) - On the 24th of November 1999, the United Kingdom banned the use of asbestos. Twenty years later and this toxic mineral still plagues public health, being linked to multiple diseases including mesothelioma. But why has asbestos remained such a threat to public health, despite laws which prevent its use? The answer is two-fold. First, vast - [Credit Emancipation: How salary-linked lending can help turn around disadvantaged places](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/credit-emancipation-making-communities-more-prosperous-and-productive/) - This report makes the case for a place-based approach to building credit. We argue that improving aggregate credit scores at the local authority level can help to address the problems of unaffordable credit, financial exclusion, indebtedness and in-work poverty that are negatively affecting individuals and communities in the UK. In addressing how local credit building - [Wheel of Misfortune: The case for lowering the stakes on Fixed Odds Betting Terminals](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/wheel-misfortune-case-lowering-stakes-fixed-odds-betting-terminals/) - Launched on 16th October 2017, ResPublica's report with Campaign for Fairer Gambling: Wheel of Misfortune: The case for lowering the stakes on Fixed Odds Betting Terminals. This is a key moment in the debate over the regulation of Fixed Odds Betting Terminals (FOBTs) in Britain today. We remain the only country in the developed world that - [Escape Velocity: Growing Salford’s Digital and Creative Economy](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/escape-velocity-growing-salfords-digital-creative-economy/) - Escape Velocity: Growing Salford’s Digital and Creative Economy makes the case for continued Government and private sector investment in Salford’s digital and creative industries to safeguard and grow the already impressive cluster that has built up around MediaCityUK. The report makes a series of recommendations for Government, The Greater Manchester Combined Authority and the City - [Coming Home to Roost: The British Poultry Meat Industry After Brexit](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/coming-home-to-roost/) - What will happen to the UK’s poultry meat sector after Brexit? Will producers and consumers alike be willing to pay potentially higher prices? Or will they be happy to compromise our high standards of production, after the UK leaves the regulatory safety net of the EU? Unless the Government is made aware of the key - [ONLINE GAMBLING: Addicted to Addiction](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/online-gambling-addicted-to-addiction/) - About the report In 'ONLINE GAMBLING: Addicted to Addiction', ResPublica, with the support of the Campaign for Fairer Gambling, builds on the recommendations in the previous ResPublica reports, developing a growing package of reforms to make the gambling industry more sustainable and responsible. This report shows that there is an urgent need for action. The - [“TECHNOPOLY” and what to do about it: Reform, Redress and Regulation](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/technopoly-and-what-to-do-about-it-reform-redress-and-regulation/) - In “TECHNOPOLY” and what to do about it: Reform, Redress and Regulation, ResPublica, with the support of the Big Innovation Centre, outline proposals for a radical overhaul of current regulation of the technology sector, which we argue is unfit for purpose, incentivises bad behaviour and has failed to address ethical questions around Big Data and its - [Submission to DCMS on Proposals for Changes to Gaming Machines and Social Responsibility Measures](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/submission-department-digital-culture-media-sport-consultation-proposals-changes-gaming-machines-social-responsibility-measures/) - This paper sets out a series of proposed measures to strengthen the research, education and treatment (RET) of problem gambling. It is primarily a response to Questions 14 and 16 of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Consultation on Proposals for Changes to Gaming Machines and Social Responsibility Measures, focusing on practical ways - [Watershed: Closing the loopholes in gambling advertising](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/watershed-closing-the-loopholes-in-gambling-advertising/) - In Watershed: Closing the loopholes in gambling advertising, ResPublica outlines the practical ways in which greater compliance, fairness and social responsibility can be encouraged in the advertising and licensing of gambling. The recommendations we put forward are not focussed on creating new legislation, but on upholding the regulatory powers already enshrined in the 2005 Gambling - [A National Housing Fund to Build the Homes we Need](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/national-housing-fund-build-homes-need/) - Launched on 14 July, ResPublica's new report A National Housing Fund to Build Homes We Need offers a radical way forward in tackling the current housing crisis and outlines the economic and social case for a new government investment in housebuilding. The report's proposals offer a solution behind which all parties can unite to address one of our - [A New Bargain: people, productivity and prosperity](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/new-bargain-people-productivity-prosperity/) - Launched ahead of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's 2018 Spring Statement A New Bargain: people, productivity and prosperity makes the case for a 'New Bargain' between employers, unions and government and is an opportunity for those who champion corporate reform and more responsible business, to seek institutional changes that place the role and value of - [Britain's Global Future: Harnessing the soft power capital of UK institutions](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/britains-global-future-harnessing-soft-power-capital-uk-institutions/) - Launched on 12th July, ResPublica's new report Britain's Global Future: Harnessing the soft power capital of UK institutions provides a timely reflection on the UK's international engagement and how to ensure Britain's voice continues to be heard as we face the global challenges of our time. The UK’s decision to leave the European Union will have - [Devo 2.0 - The Case for Counties](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/devo-2-0-case-counties/) - On Monday 20th November we launched our report - Devo 2.0: The Case for Counties – which argues that the devolution agenda should be extended beyond the cities by embracing reform of local government in the counties. Reform is essential in facing up to England’s economic and political challenges. Local government has, some places, risen - [Appetite for Global Success](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/appetite-global-success/) - Launched on 2nd November, ResPublica’s report Appetite for Global Success looks at the importance and strength of the Food and Drink manufacturing sector and its role in the entire food chain, with the contribution to jobs, exports and economic footprint across the UK, including representing 17% of all manufacturing and 6.7% of exports. It outlines the challenges - [Heartbeats on the High Street](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/heartbeats-high-street/) - Launched on 20th November, ResPublica's new report - Heartbeats on the High Street: How Community Pharmacy can transform Britain's health, wealth and wellbeing - highlights the unique role and “social capital” of Community Pharmacy. By putting pharmacies at the heart of public health, we argue that they can become vital institutions of localism, care and social reform. The - [Expanding Horizons: The Role for New Nuclear in the UK's Energy Mix](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/expanding-horizons-role-new-nuclear-uks-energy-mix-2/) - On the 10th of November, we launched our report, Expanding Horizons: The Role for New Nuclear in the UK's Energy Mix. In this report we make the case for investing in new nuclear in the UK and demonstrate the significant and wide-ranging benefits involved. It is right and proper that Government carefully considers the new nuclear programme - [Making young minds matter: Reshaping support services](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/making-young-minds-matter-reshaping-support-services/) - Launched on 21st August, ResPublica's new report for Barnardo's Making Young Minds: Reshaping support services for young people in the new Parliament offers a framework to improve mental health provision and support services for young people and children. The theme of social divisions and inequality of opportunity within the UK has taken on greater political significance in - [The Mission of Media in an Age of Monopoly](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/mission-media-age-monopoly/) - Launched on 26th May on BBC Radio 4's Today Programme, ResPublica's latest report, The Mission of Media in an Age of Monopoly, argues that the trend for media outlets to be increasingly owned and controlled in an oligopolistic, non-transparent fashion is damaging to the health of our democracy. The report recommends a series of steps to both raise the public - [Fork in the Road: Maximising the Economic Opportunity of Britain's Food and Drink Industry](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/fork-road-maximising-economic-opportunity-britains-food-drink-industry/) - Fork in the Road: Maximising the Economic Opportunity of Britain's Food and Drink Industry outlines why the food and drink sector must be given due focus and with commensurate support, including co-ordinating infrastructure and skills sector needs. The report looks at the need to increase R&D and apply new technology, which can bring public policy benefits - [What future for unaccompanied child migrants in the UK?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/projects/what-future-unaccompanied-child-migrants-uk/) - The Government’s Written Statement of February this year stated that, based on conversations with local authorities, councils in the UK had an estimated capacity to accommodate 400 unaccompanied migrant children, with 350 of those being accepted through the now-closed “Dubs amendment”. However, reports in national newspapers including the Observer have claimed that some local authorities believe - [All politics is local](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/projects/all-politics-is-local/) - Underlying the recent rejection of past decades’ political certainties is the belief among many communities that they have been cut off from the wider country. The UK’s economic divisions are widely acknowledged, but inequalities of education and health outcomes also abound, and prospects for social mobility vary across the country. The language and content of - [Recognising and revitalising cultural identity](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/projects/recognising-revitalising-cultural-identity/) - Culture, the arts and creative industries are vital to economic prosperity and social reform. Too often, culture is overlooked by policy-makers as they seek, wrongly, to achieve short-term fixes to long-term challenges. We believe that recognising and revitalising cultural identity must be central to Government’s vision for the future. Culture is community, because it is part - [Social Reform](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/projects/social-reform/) - ResPublica has launched its Social Reform programme to overcome the defining political issue of our time: the great divides of wealth and power across the nation. These are driving damaging populist movements in our public life, but they are also having more profound and lasting impacts on families and communities, depriving people in all parts - [Air Necessities: Place-based approaches to a pollution crisis](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/air-necessities-place-based-solutions-pollution-crisis/) - Air Necessities: Place-based approaches to a pollution crisis sets out how cities all over the country can take the lead in tackling air pollution caused by road traffic. Air pollution, particularly that generated from road traffic, kills the equivalent of 40,000 people each year, and costs the NHS and the economy billions of pounds. Increased use - [A new devolved future for Britain’s mid-size cities](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/projects/new-devolved-future-britains-mid-size-cities/) - The challenge: An unequal and diverging Brexit Britain Britain’s cities and regions face real and growing challenges post-Brexit. It is vital that growth is delivered across the country. However, the UK’s inter-regional inequality is the worst in the OECD and its governance is amongst the most centralised in the world. But, while regional inequality is - [Unlocking Industrial Strategy](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/projects/industrial-strategy/) - ResPublica welcomes the government’s Industrial Strategy, particularly the emphasis on working across departments, importance of place and support for sectors, while seeking to reach parts of the country that for too long have been left behind. In setting out a framework of key pillars and questions, the Government has created a space in which thought - [Corporate Governance for Long-Term Prosperity](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/projects/corporate-governance-long-term-prosperity/) - ResPublica is examining whether Britain’s models of corporate governance are delivering for the country and for business. There is growing concern that short-term decision-making is detrimental to British business and harms economic growth and prosperity. ResPublica is supporting an approach that seeks to strengthen the policy environment for businesses that invest for the long term, - [Towards a new housing settlement](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/projects/towards-new-housing-settlement/) - An affordable, secure, and comfortable home is a foundational block of any good life. But we have an increasing deficit in housing supply, caused by decades of undersupply. Private rents at record highs; home ownership at record lows; 1.4 million families on social housing waiting lists; and average house prices soaring to 10 times the - [Achieving Educational Excellence in Knowsley: A review of attainment](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/achieving-educational-excellence-knowsley-review-attainment/) - Launched on October 31st, Achieving Educational Excellence in Knowsley, signposts the way ahead for the Knowsley Education Commission to reverse the cycle of underperformance in the borough and deliver genuine educational excellence. Yet beyond this, it also serves to make wider policy recommendations to Government about what is needed in places like Knowsley all around - [Going to Scale: How a National Housing Fund Can Unlock Britain's House Building Capacity](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/going-scale-national-housing-fund-can-unlock-britains-house-building-capacity/) - Launched on November 17th, Going to Scale sets out how government can meet Britain’s housing challenge and deliver the homes that are desperately needed around the country. It proposes a long-term National Housing Fund to deliver up to 75,000 homes a year and get the housing market work for the many. The Government has set - [Britain’s Diplomatic Strength: Harnessing soft power in a post-Brexit world](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/projects/britains-diplomatic-strength-harnessing-soft-power-post-brexit-world/) - ResPublica, in partnership with the British Council, is undertaking a project on soft power and the vital role of institutions in British foreign policy. Institutions are uniquely effective at stabilising nations. When properly configured and supported, British institutions – such as the BBC, British Council, universities and museums – can provide mediation in some of - [Regional manufacturing and the Industrial Strategy](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/projects/regional-manufacturing-industrial-strategy/) - ResPublica is developing a vision for a place-based industrial strategy that addresses the UK’s regional productivity problem, and responds to competitiveness challenges post-Brexit. Working in partnership with Nestlé UK, the British arm of the world’s largest food company, with 13 factories and an 8,000-strong workforce spread throughout the country, we are carrying out a programme of - [Making social reform work for vulnerable young people](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/projects/making-social-reform-work-vulnerable-young-people/) - Since taking office, the new Prime Minister's rhetoric has made clear her determination to help young people from all backgrounds to go as far as their talent will take them and to tackle what she sees as society's “burning injustices”. Mrs May has established and will personally chair a new Social Reform Cabinet Committee, and her - [Beyond Belief: Defending religious liberty through the British Bill of Rights](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/beyond-belief-defending-religious-liberty-british-bill-rights/) - Launched on November 30th, Beyond Belief: Defending religious liberty through the British Bill of Rights reflects on the thesis that in a free and plural society, rights should protect difference and ensure equity between those of different dispositions. A curious legal and philosophical inversion seems to have taken place over recent decade; where once rights were - [Newport: City of Democracy](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/newport-city-democracy/) - Many cities have adopted a ‘city brand’ to appeal to potential investors, visitors and residents. But what makes a city brand successful, and could it work for Newport? In this report, we set out the case that a “City of Democracy” brand for Newport could not only help achieve the authenticity and inspiration that makes - [Civil Society and social welfare](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/projects/civil-society-social-welfare/) - Since its inception, ResPublica has argued that civil society and private business in the UK and other countries have a crucial social responsibility. We believe in the breakup of state monopolies and allowing charities, social enterprises and companies grounded in their local municipalities to provide public services, devolving responsibility, control and power to local communities. - [Our strategic priorities](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work//our-strategic-priorities/) - Social Reform We live in a divided nation. The effects of inequality impact on every part of our lives, and disadvantage is geographically and intergenerationally entrenched. The poorest children are half as likely to achieve basic literacy and numeracy skills by age 11, three times more likely to be obese, and will die on average - [Great Estates: Putting communities at the heart of regeneration](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/great-estates-putting-communities-heart-regeneration/) - Launched 10th November, Great Estates: Putting communities at the heart of regeneration, sets out how communities can be put at the heart of the Government’s forthcoming Estate Regeneration Strategy – and what else needs to be done to ensure prosperity and opportunity is spread to all parts of the country. Crucially, it warns that there is a - [The case for a Growth Deal for Belfast](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/case-growth-deal-belfast/) - Belfast today is full of ambition, optimism and - above all - energy. A city on the rise, Belfast is proud of its ever expanding global outlook which boasts a young, talented workforce, a Foreign Direct Investment hub and a thriving cultural scene. It has global visibility and international goodwill, and Belfast is known as a - [ResPublica North](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/projects/respublica-north/) - Over the past seven years, ResPublica has been at the heart of the debate over devolution in the UK. We have provided the intellectual groundwork for a radical redistribution of power to the city-regions of Manchester and Liverpool, have worked with cities across England, Wales and Northern Ireland on new city-deals and have convened the - [A Manifesto for the North](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/a-manifesto-for-the-north/) - Launched on the 8th July at our flagship Finding True North conference in Salford, A Manifesto for the North is our vision for the region harnessing further devolved powers; culturally vibrant and with the benefits of economic growth accrued to all. With keynote speakers including Greg Clark MP, James Wharton MP and Dan Jarvis MP, the - [Backing Beauty Commission](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/projects/backing-beauty-year-long-commission-place-beauty-back-heart-public-policy-planning/) - Our Backing Beauty Commission is a campaign to put beauty, placemaking and community participation at the heart of local planning and wider public policy. Through conversations with national and local policymakers and officials, as well as professional planners and developers, the campaign will work towards achieving a culture change which would see higher priority given to the concept of beauty, as discerned by - [A Manifesto for Britain Leading, not Leaving, Europe](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/manifesto-britain-leading-not-leaving-europe-2/) - In partnership with British Influence, ResPublica released its vision of a renewed European Union with Britain at its heart, and we want to know your views on the reforms we need most. Visit www.leadingnotleaving.com to have your say. The EU Referendum debate has been dominated by negative arguments about costs of staying in or the - [Devo Max - Devo Manc: Place-based public services](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/devo-max-devo-manc-place-based-public-services/) - Monday 15th September marked the launch of ResPublica's report 'Devo Max - Devo Manc'. The report proposed a radical plan to give Greater Manchester greater control of its finances and an elected Mayor. Devo Max - Devo Manc: Place-based public services, argues that Greater Manchester should be fully devolved with control over all public spending, - [Care After Cure: Creating a fast track pathway from hospitals to homes](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/care-cure-creating-fast-track-pathway-hospitals-homes/) - ResPublica's latest report, Care after Cure: Creating a fast track pathway from hospitals to homes, argues that delayed transfers of care, and the high costs that go with caring for patients who no longer need specialist acute care, must be resolved to free up much needed hospital capacity. The NHS, and hospitals in particular, - [Ticket to Ride: How high speed rail for Liverpool can realise the Northern Powerhouse](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/ticket-ride-high-speed-rail-liverpool-can-realise-northern-powerhouse/) - ResPublica’s latest report, Ticket to Ride: How high speed rail for Liverpool can realise the Northern Powerhouse, radically argues for an innovative local funding mechanism to finance a high speed rail connection from Liverpool city centre into the HS2 route. Featured in The Guardian, The Financial Times, and on BBC News, the report shows investment will - [Make or Break: Why Britain needs a manufacturing resurgence and how we can help it to take place](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/make-or-break/) - ResPublica’s new report, Make or Break: Why Britain needs a manufacturing resurgence and how we can help it to take place, sets out how Britain can better help manufacturing contribute to UK-wide economic prosperity, productivity and opportunity. We argue that a new focus on foreign investment can power economic growth and support a geographical and sectoral - [Power to the People: The mutual future of our National Health Service](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/power-people-mutual-future-national-health-service/) - The National Health Service is at a critical juncture in its long and illustrious history. Tighter public finances brought about by the most significant programme of fiscal contraction for a generation, together with an ever-ageing population, mean that the current system of healthcare enjoyed by all in England is simply unsustainable. Under current arrangements, the - [A Community Right to Beauty](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/a-community-right-to-beauty-giving-communities-the-power-to-shape-enhance-and-create-beautiful-places-developments-and-spaces/) - ResPublica's new report, A Community Right to Beauty: Giving communities the power to shape, enhance and create beautiful places, buildings and spaces, argues for the restoration and democratisation of beauty in public policy. The report featured this morning on BBC Radio 4's Today Programme, with Dame Fiona Reynolds, former Director General of the The National Trust, accompanied by a - [Power, People and Places: A Manifesto for devolution to Britain’s Key Cities](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/power-people-and-places-a-manifesto-for-devolution-to-britains-key-cities/) - The Key Cities group represent cities across England and Wales, we say Britain’s cities in the title of this manifesto because we think the arguments employed here apply to all the mid-sized cities in the country. We believe that if we are ever to rebalance our country and restore prosperity and worth to all of - [Restoring Britain's City States: Devolution, public service reform and local economic growth](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/restoring-britains-city-states-devolution-public-service-reform-local-economic-growth/) - The debate on devolution, not only between parliaments, but for cities and other places across the whole of the UK, has never been more important to the future of our country. In the runup to the 2015 General Election all major parties have committed to devolution in some form and it will be a key - [The Missing Multipliers: Devolution to Britain’s Key Cities](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/the-missing-multipliers/) - The Missing Multipliers: Devolution to Britain’s Key Cities positions the needs of Britain’s Key Cities at the forefront of the devolution debate, advancing the argument that mid-sized cities are the‘missing multipliers’ in the current drive to generate both economic growth and public service transformation. It recognises the important role that Key Cities play and calls for greater powers and - [The Care Collapse: The imminent crisis in residential care and its impact on the NHS](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/the-care-collapse-the-imminent-crisis-in-residential-care-and-its-impact-on-the-nhs/) - ResPublica, in partnership with Four Seasons Health Care, HC-One, and GMB, has undertaken research assessing the state of the residential care industry, including an analysis of its future financial viability. This will inform a full report, to be published in the new year, setting out our broader vision of the future of care providers: acting - [Unfinished Business: The ownership agenda, thirty years on](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/unfinished-business-the-ownership-agenda-thirty-years-on/) - Unfinished Business: The ownership agenda, thirty years on, is a ResPublica Essay published on Monday 5th October 2015 by ResPublica and trade body Co-operatives UK. It finds that more people are renting their homes from private landlords than ever before. The essay reveals that thirty years ago 61% of the UK’s households owned their own home, and that while - [After the Green Deal: Empowering people and places to improve their homes](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/after-the-green-deal/) - ResPublica, in partnership with Age UK, The Mineral Wool Insulation Manufacturers Association and the Energy Bill Revolution, sets out a bold set of recommendations for energy efficiency policy. Britain’s energy efficiency policy has failed. Under the Green Deal there was a sharp decline in the number of consumers retrofitting their homes. We need a bold - [In Professions We Trust: Fostering virtuous practitioners in teaching, law and medicine](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/virtuous-practice-professions/) - ResPublica, in partnership with the Jubilee Centre, sets out to reaffirm the value and purpose of our great professions in our latest report In Professions We Trust: Fostering virtuous practitioners in teaching, law and medicine. This report argues that the legal, medical, and teaching professions provide a vital link between public service and the wider common good. - [Devo Home: A double devolution of housing to people and places](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/building-homes-creating-places-provide-long-term-supply-demand-solutions-housing-crisis/) - ResPublica, in partnership with GallifordTry, Peabody, Places for People and Trowers & Hamlins, sets out a radical vision of double devolution to tackle the housing crisis. We are building less than half the number of homes needed to meet both population growth and tackle the backlog caused by decades of undersupply; 1.4 million families sit on social - [Out of the Cold: An Agenda for Warm Homes](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/out-of-the-cold-an-agenda-for-warm-homes/) - We are facing a cold homes crisis. One in every ten households in England are in fuel poverty; 2.28 million homes are struggling to keep warm. Many of those on low incomes are choosing eating over heating their homes and most are paying up to £1000 more on their annual energy bills than the average - [Virtuous Banking: Placing ethos and purpose at the heart of finance](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/virtuous-banking-placing-ethos-purpose-heart-finance/) - On Tuesday 29th July at the Financial Times, ResPublica launched its report, Virtuous Banking: Placing ethos and purpose at the heart of finance, with a keynote speech by Sir Richard Lambert, Chair of the Banking Standards Review. The banking industry is Britain’s great economic and social enabler. Given the capacity of our banks and building - [Military Academies: Tackling disadvantage, improving ethos and changing outcome](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/military-academies-tackling-disadvantage-improving-ethos-changing-outcome/) - On Wednesday 11th January 2012, ResPublica published Military Academies: Tackling disadvantage, improving ethos and changing outcome. A product of ResPublica's Models and Partnerships for Social Prosperity workstream, one of the three core workstreams of the ResPublica Trust, the publication is the first of a new format known as ResPublica Green Papers. Designed to provide a - [Our House: Reflections on Representation and Reform in the House of Lords](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/house-reflections-representation-reform-house-lords/) - As a keynote publication from our British Civic Life workstream, ResPublica are proud to launch a collection of essays which explore how the House of Lords can best uphold and communicate the views and values of civil society. Phillip Blond, ResPublica Director and Research Associate Rafal Heydel-Mankoo also set out an alternative proposal for its - [Clubbing Together: The hidden wealth of communities](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/clubbing-together-hidden-wealth-communities/) - Following a nine-month research project, the latest report from ResPublica, Clubbing Together: The hidden wealth of communities, argues that provoking group instead of individual behaviours, and using groups and clubs to draw in other individuals and communities, should be central to policy initiatives. Existing networks and associations, such as clubs and club-type activity, have the - [Marriage: Union for the future or contract for the present](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/marriage-union-future-contract-present/) - To coincide with the Parliamentary debate on the Government’s Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill, the latest publication from ResPublica, Marriage: Union for the future or contract for the present, criticises the Bill for compromising the meaning of both traditional heterosexual marriage and homosexual partnership. Written by ResPublica Director Phillip Blond and ResPublica Fellow Professor Roger - [If Scotland says ‘No’: What next for the Union?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/scotland-says-no-next-union/) - A Constitution Society Paper in Conjunction with ResPublica. - [The Virtue of Enterprise: Responsible business for a new economy](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/virtue-enterprise-responsible-business-new-economy/) - A radical change in attitude from our “new economy” businesses is needed if the private sector is to regain the trust of British consumers and promote a new economy of truly responsible capitalism, the latest publication from the think tank ResPublica urges today. With public trust in businesses at an all-time low and bankers at - [Holistic Mission: Social action and the Church of England](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/holistic-mission-social-action-church-england/) - New ResPublica report argues that the Church must become an enabling institution focussed on holistic, interpersonal and local social action. Local government and churches should work together to fight deep-seated poverty and social dysfunction, urges a new report from ResPublica. Holistic Mission: Social Action and the Church of England reveals that the Church drives social - [Raising the Roof: A new social bar for housing associations](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/raising-roof-new-social-bar-housing-associations/) - Housing associations have always been about more than building homes and picking up rent. As ‘social’ rather than ‘private’ landlords, a wider community role is essential to their identity. This role must now adapt to some major public policy shifts. The localism agenda, the (Public Services) Social Value Act 2012 and enormous changes in welfare - [The Venture Society: Fuelling aspiration, independence and growth through grass-roots social entrepreneurship](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/venture-society-fuelling-aspiration-independence-growth-grass-roots-social-entrepreneurship/) - The Venture Society, a flagship report from ResPublica's Civil Society and Social Innovation Unit, was launched at the SHINE UnConference on 13 May 2010. Part of a project commissioned by UnLtd, the largest provider of support to social entrepreneurs in the country, the report paints a mixed picture of what it calls the Venture Society. - [To Buy, To Bid, To Build: Community rights for an asset-owning democracy](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/buy-bid-build-community-rights-asset-owning-democracy/) - November 15 2011 saw the launch of ResPublica's latest report, To Buy, To Bid, To Build: Community Rights for an Asset Owning Democracy, co-authored by its Director, Phillip Blond, and Development Trusts Association Director, Steve Wyler, in association with NESTA. The publication highlights 10 simple strategies for enabling individuals and community groups to join together - [The Rural Big Society](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/rural-big-society/) - The Big Society approach is already alive and well in many of our rural villages and market towns. But there is lot more that could be done to help. The CRC and ResPublica have worked together to develop the briefing paper released today. The Rural Big Society, based on engagement with a broad cross section - [At the Crossroads: a progressive future for housing associations](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/crossroads-progressive-future-housing-associations/) - At the Crossroads: a progressive future for housing associations was launched on 5 May 2011, setting out a radical new vision for an affordable housing sector that provides homes to over 2 million households across England - 1 in 10 of total housing stock. As well as providing a home, many housing associations play a - [Children and the Big Society: Backing communities to keep the next generation safe and happy](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/children-big-society-backing-communities-keep-next-generation-safe-happy/) - On Tuesday 21 June, ResPublica launched Children and the Big Society: Backing communities to keep the next generation safe and happy, in which we argue that the Government must acknowledge the community’s vital role in promoting the safety and well-being of children. The report, authored by ResPublica’s Research Associate, Duncan Fisher, and the Head of the - [Changing the Debate: The Ideas Redefining Britain](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/changing-debate-ideas-redefining-britain/) - On Thursday 14 July 2011, ResPublica published a collection of essays which brings together some of the country’s most exciting thinkers to explore the new policies and approaches that will create and deliver the new political settlement. The publication was formally launched at ResPublica's Summer Reception, attended by Work and Pensions Minister Lord Freud and - [Capturing the Cloud: Technology-Driven Growth and Innovation in the UK](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/capturing-cloud-technology-driven-growth-innovation-uk/) - On Thursday 7 July ResPublica launched a new report, Capturing the Cloud: Technology-Driven Growth and Innovation in the UK. The report was welcomed by senior industry professionals and policy makers at a stakeholder consultation event, who contributed views on the current challenges and opportunities in order to achieve a critical analysis of key issues. This - [Civic Limits: How much more involved can people get?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/civic-limits-much-involved-can-people-get/) - ResPublica is delighted to share its latest report, Civic Limits: How much more involved can people get?. This report seeks to provide some definition to this aspect of the big society debate by exploring the best available data on the state of civic life in Britain and describing what in practical terms is required to get more - [Asset Building for Children with Disabilities](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/asset-building-children-disabilities/) - ResPublica's final report of the summer was launched on Thursday 21st July 2011, at a stakeholder roundtable hosted by the British Bankers' Association and attended by a number of policy experts, finance providers and financial inclusion groups. Building on a previous publication by ResPublica, Asset Building for Children, the report, produced in partnership with Scope, provides - [Age of Opportunity: Older people, volunteering and the Big Society](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/age-opportunity-older-people-volunteering-big-society/) - On Monday 3 October, ResPublica launched its latest report, entitled 'Age of Opportunity: Older people, volunteering and the Big Society'. Written by ResPublica Associate Antonia Cox, the report, produced in conjunction with Independent Age, demonstrates that older people are already a fundamental part of the government's Big Society vision and considers how their level of engagement - [The ResPublica Fringe Magazine 2011](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/respublica-fringe-magazine-2011/) - As part of ResPublica's annual party conference platform, we release a publication entitled The ResPublica Fringe Magazine, which includes a number of article and essays from our party conference partners and guest speakers. In 2011 ResPublica were proud to host 25 fringe events across all three party conferences, working with a range of leading organisations from business and civil - ['Asset Ownership' to 'Zeitgeist': an A-Z directory of ResPublica's ideas and guiding principles](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/asset-ownership-zeitgeist-z-directory-respublicas-ideas-guiding-principles/) - This week marked the two year anniversary of ResPublica. Since our launch in November 2009 by David Cameron, ResPublica has achieved demonstrable success and impact on the policy landscape in a number of ways. Our reports have received widespread acclaim from policy-makers and practitioners, the media, and politicians from both sides of the political spectrum. ResPublica events, from - [The Ownership State: Restoring excellence, innovation and ethos to the public services](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/ownership-state-restoring-excellence-innovation-ethos-public-services/) - It is hard to underestimate the challenge faced by our public services. Not only must they contend with ever increasing public expectations and societal challenges such as an ageing population, but they must do this in the face of the biggest shock to public finances in living memory. Our current model of public sector reform - [Digital Giving: Modernising Gift Aid; Taking Civil Society into the Digital Age](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/digital-giving-modernising-gift-aid-taking-civil-society-digital-age/) - ResPublica’s report Digital Giving - Modernising Gift Aid; Taking Civil Society into the Digital Age unveils a series of measures designed to boost charitable giving and overhaul the current Gift Aid system to make it easier for charities to claim millions of pounds they and taxpayers who donate are currently missing out on - such - [Asset Building for Children: Creating a new civic savings platform for young people](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/asset-building-children-creating-new-civic-savings-platform-young-people/) - Radical measures designed to free Britain's poor from the “debt serfdom” that has engulfed them in recent years are proposed today in a major new report aimed at reviving the savings culture. The report highlights the chasm in assets that has opened up between rich and poor, pointing out that according to official figures, households - [The ResPublica Fringe Magazine 2010](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/respublica-fringe-magazine-2010/) - In Autumn 2010, our inaugural party conference season, ResPublica hosted over 20 successful and well attended fringe events on a range of topics. During conference season we welcomed expert speakers from the policy, civil society and business world including over 20 front bench ministers and prominent parliamentarians. The ResPublica Fringe magazine is a collection of articles - [The Civil Effect: Bringing efficiency, innovation and community capability to our framework of public services commissioning](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/civil-effect-bringing-efficiency-innovation-community-capability-framework-public-services-commissioning/) - ResPublica’s report The Civil Effect warns that the development of David Cameron's Big Society will fail unless urgent action is taken to better support civil society in our public services. The report's author and Deputy Director of ResPublica, Asheem Singh says that the development of an expanded civil society along the lines mapped out by - [The Right to Retail: Can localism save Britain's small retailers?](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/right-retail-can-localism-save-britains-small-retailers/) - ResPublica's report A Right to Retail: Can localism save Britain's small retailers? urges government to empower communities to rebalance the UK’s retail economy. The report, which has been reported on by the Guardian, ConservativeHome, The Grocer, Platform10, Regeneration and Renewal, The Retail Bulletin and Scotland on Sunday, argues that the Government must give communities the power - [Natural Policy Choices: Why trees and woods matter](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/natural-policy-choices-trees-woods-matter/) - On Friday 17 June 2011 ResPublica launched its report Natural Policy Choices: Why trees and woods matter, setting out a clear agenda for Government in relation to our woodland and green spaces, building on the principles outlined in the recent Natural Environment White Paper. With the total economic, social and environmental value of UK woodland running - [Creating Local Energy Economies: Lessons from Germany](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/creating-local-energy-economies-lessons-germany/) - A new ResPublica publication, launched today, reveals that businesses looking to become energy suppliers face major barriers to entry in the UK. 12 new businesses have entered into the domestic supply market since 2011, taking the total number to 25, but the six largest energy companies still capture 93.5% of the market share. In stark - [Different Politics, Same Planet: Values for sustainable development beyond left and right](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/different-politics-planet-values-sustainable-development-beyond-left-right/) - On Wednesday 14 December 2011, ResPublica launched Different Politics, Same Planet: Values for sustainable development beyond left and right, a new report on environmental and humanitarian values supported by Oxfam and WWF-UK. Proportional policy responses to today’s profound environmental and humanitarian problems will require a new level of political commitment. Doubtless, in part, this will - [Renewing Britain’s Commonwealth](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work//renewing-britains-commonwealth/) - In the UK, the situation is little better. We now trust bankers more than we do politicians, and many – especially young people – feel so disconnected from, and disillusioned by, politics that they are unwilling to vote. Underlying this is the loss of shared values, and of any relationship between personal conviction and social - [Responsible Recovery: A social contract for local growth](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/responsible-recovery-social-contract-local-growth/) - The latest report from ResPublica, Responsible Recovery: A social contract for local growth, calls for a more joined-up approach to government policy on welfare, poverty and employment. Arguing that we need localism that creates work and opportunity, rooting recovery in the communities that are most crying out for it, the report calls for a 'social - [21st Century Organisations](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work//21st-century-organisations/) - Established models of governance in both the public and the private sectors are under challenge as never before. With hindsight it is clear not only that the extended period of growth that led up to the crash was unsustainable, but also that there will be no easy return to growth-as-usual, because the current economic standstill - [An Infrastructure Strategy for the UK, with Rt Hon John Hayes MP, Minister of State for Transport](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work//infrastructure-strategy-uk-rt-hon-john-hayes-mp-minister-state-transport/) - Early next year, ResPublica will be hosting a private half-day infrastructure conference with the Minister for Transport and Senior Parliamentary Adviser to the Prime Minister, Rt Hon John Hayes MP. The conference will coincide with the Infrastructure Bill being debated in the House of Commons, and will urge an infrastructure strategy that is bold, long-lasting - [Facilitating Competition and Innovation in the UK's Energy Markets](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work//facilitating-competition-innovation-uks-energy-markets/) - The UK gas and electricity markets are broken. Ofgem’s State of the Market Assessment revealed that average duel fuel prices increased by 24% between 2009 and 2013, while Inflation (CPI) only increased by 13.8% during the same period. Wholesale costs have also risen but this does not tell whole story. The overall industry domestic supply - [Re-energising Our Communities: Transforming the energy market through local energy production](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/re-energising-communities-transforming-energy-market-local-energy-production/) - Energy market diversification has been a heated topic of political debate. Attempts to address an unbalanced and unsustainable market have largely been approached in terms of widening consumer choice, ushering in new competition and breaking up supply. But such focus is missing the real opportunity, which is to change the market completely by encouraging consumers - [Seven Guiding Principles for a Better Budget](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/seven-guiding-principles-better-budget/) - In the lead up to the Budget announcement, ResPublica's Patricia Kaszynska sets out seven principles which should underscore the Chancellor's objectives in his 2012 budget. From explaining why we should tax wealth not income, to how we can democratise finance, this list suggests budget proposals that would address economic inequality and bolster social cohesion. By - [Financing for Growth: A new model to unlock infrastructure investment](https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-work/publications/financing-growth-new-model-unlock-infrastructure-investment/) - The latest report from ResPublica, Financing for Growth: A new model to unlock infrastructure investment, puts forward proposals for a new form of infrastructure financing which could attract new investment and capture latent potential from households, private business and the community sector. 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