Transport Manifesto
Transport Times Conference, 24 June 2009 – Originally on ways2work Transport Times has long been at the forefront of innovative thinking in transport policy, and I am delighted to be making my first...
View ArticleHigh Speed Rail: The UK needs another 1,000,000 Jobs
For the Huffington Post Today an economic report has been published that reaffirms what we have known all along. High-speed rail will deliver jobs and growth. The report, commissioned by Britain’s...
View ArticleOne term-ism and a plan for growth
This is taken from my opening speech to the Progress annual conference on 12th May One-termism - back to the 70's? Approaching mid-term, a significant political shift is taking place in Labour’s...
View ArticleDeclinism is back
Originally written for the Financial Times Going South: Why Britain will have a Third World Economy by 2014, by Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson, Palgrave Macmillan, £14.99 Declinism is back, and...
View ArticleHow much should bankers be paid?
Originally in the Independent, 7th July 2012 Michael Gove has referred to the teaching unions as a “drag on the profession”. What is your response to that? The best arguments usually win and union...
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