Keynesian Liberal

In the early 1930s the powers that be proposed that Birstall, the urban village where I live, which then had its own independent Local Gove...

It's a bit rich for Ed Miliband to complain that Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) puts people off politics.  After all, he's r...

  A report by the government's official English Housing Survey shows that it is now more expensive the average weekly cost of renting...

The Liberal Democrat hierarchy does itself and the party no favours by slapping down anyone who says what they really think about the Israe...

Devolution of power and responsibility from Westminster and Whitehall to regional and local government has been part of the Liberal/Liberal...

I've just returned from a week's walking holiday in Scotland, based on Pitlochry. I've made no attempt to carry out a straw pol...

Robert Walker is professor of social policy at Oxford University, and is to publish this month a book called "The Shame of Poverty....