Brexit weekly: 5 things

And they’re off… Theresa May won overwhelming approval from the House of Commons to press ahead with Article 50 this week, also prompting further instability into Labour’s already fragile leadership in the process. The Commons vote saw the Government win the day 494...

What should be in the next Labour health manifesto?

As our Associate Director Chris Rogers blogged yesterday, Labour’s infighting is becoming a cycle that looks unlikely to be broken soon, and this extends into its take on health policy. There comes a time when words should be translated into actions, and now is the...

What next for Labour?

Oh dear. When Jeremy Corbyn took his seat, his contribution to yesterday’s Prime Minister’s Questions done, he must have done so with a sense of satisfaction. He’d enjoyed arguably his best performance yet at Parliament’s primary set-piece. Certainly, that was the...

Preparation for cyber threats: the role of communications

Many of us who were around in the 1980s will remember Jeff Bridges talking about ‘The Grid’ in Tron – at the time a fun imagining of computer programming. Then ‘The Grid’ gave way to ‘The Web’ as Tim Berners-Lee ushered in the age of the internet. Now, of course,...