...and What Labour Can Learn From It

Is a Four-Day Week Economically Viable and Politically Feasible?

Should all states be held equally responsible for implementing climate policy despite huge differences in contributions to climate-related issues?  

Planning Policy, Credit Distortion, and the Roots of Britain’s Economic Stagnation

To fight the tide of populism, the EU must devolve from supranationalism to intergovernmentalism

Why is gold resurging and the world slowly losing trust in US bonds?

NIMBYism and the modern British crisis of scarcity

This iteration had some real brain teasers 

What More Should be Done to Combat Chinese Espionage in the UK?

Why undervaluing skilled workers breaks public services and what a fair pay strategy could fix

Speculation, mixed signals, and shifting promises are quietly damaging economic confidence - and the government must rethink its approach. 

Head of Media & Communications Hubert Kucharski writes for the Financial Times

A polite request: No debating Tom vs. Summer in the comments

How Gen Z is shaping world politics through protests and social media. In an era marked by institutional distrust, it is not anyone else but a generation, widely criticised for having lived in ‘easier times’  and not having endured real hardship, that ended up leading the charge for change in many countries faced with prolonged institutional failure. Something that the generations before them failed to achieve. The echoes of the protests, led by Generation Z, will forever res

Why economic growth is no longer translating into poverty reduction

European Lessons from Trump’s failed Ukraine Deal  Trump’s 28-point-peace plan leaked on 19 November ; since then, the plan fell through and much has been discussed about how much Russia stood to gain from the deal and how Trump bent to Putin’s will. Conspicuously, little has been said of the European role in the creation as well as execution of the failed peace plan. Considering the implications of this plan for the EU, it would behoove Europeans to reflect on how their wea

Leeds Policy Institute Awarded ‘Building for the Future’ Grant to Host Major Multi-Regional Conference

Why the UK should have increased development spending levels in the wake of USAID’s dismantling?

Eat the rich

Why does the UK’s consumption still fuel Indonesia’s deforestation?

How the UK’s new asylum system is reshaping the the futures of refugees

Leveraging National Security to Reshape Britain’s Political Landscape

Schrödinger’s Prime Minister is running out of nine lives; ambiguity carried him into power, but it certainly will not carry him through to the next general election. 

Connections to Epstein- a paved way to better reform

What the absence of the superpowers means for the future of global climate cooperation

It is said higher risk equates to higher return, perhaps now is high time for Britain to go risk-on

Money was transformed from a spontaneous market medium into an instrument of imperial finance T hat note in your wallet or the digital balance on your screen represents not real wealth, but an artificial, encrypted promise - a fungible financial claim sustaining modern economies through illusion. Once termed chirographis pecuniarium by the Scholastics, (a mere written acknowledgment of debt),  this promise has been perpetuated and expanded over time by central and commercia