Devolution, defence and debt...

Are higher living standards the key to electoral success? Both the Government and the opposition are scrambling for new policies and messages to win back unconvinced voters. Is this new political landscape ultimately shaped by the lack of growth in household incomes? How much of the remainder of t…

Britain does not feel like a nation at ease – and hasn’t done for a very long while. By more than two-to-one, Britons last year judged the country to be on the “wrong track” rather than heading in the “right direction”. Ruth Curtice, the Chief Executive of the Resolution Foundation, discusses the e…

The Treasury promised us a boring non-event, which on the day was massively over-shadowed by events in the Middle East. Ruth Curtice discusses the merits of annual fiscal events, the difficulty of getting growth going, and what to expect in the Chancellor's upcoming (and unprecedented) second Mais …

Why are so many young people both out of work, and not in school? Research Director Lindsay Judge speaks to Principal Economist Nye Cominetti and Chief Executive of the Nuffield Foundation Gavin Kelly, to get to the bottom of who's becoming NEET (Not in Employment, Education or Training) and why - …