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How Many Homes Does the UK Need?
Decades of lacklustre housebuilding and recent record migration have left the UK with a shortfall of more than 6.5 million homes. The debut research by Head of Housing Ben Hopkinson shows how the UK has fallen dramatically behind comparable European countries, with British families paying the price through unaffordable homes.
The Cold War
The Cold War! Many, probably most, of the typical political expressions – the cant phrases, as we would say – of our epoch come from France, and especially from the French revolution.
Science and Politics
In 1872 Walter Bagehot’s physics and politics was published. In it he pointed out that new inventions, particularly the railway and the telegraph, together with the rapid acquisition of physical knowledge were leading to a new world of ideas.
Privatise the Post
The government has taken large steps in order to improve the performance of the postal industry in Britain.
Privatise Coal
The nationalised coal industry is now in better shape than it has been for many years.
More to do
Without an educated citizenry all the achievements of the present government will be built upon sand.
History in Peril
History in Peril introduces a series of four papers. The first three will be devoted to subjects ins schools which are at present under threat, history, mathematics and English.
History and GCSE History
We cannot escape from history, Our lives are governed by what happened in the past, our decisions by what we believe to have happened.
Healthy Competition
The National Health Service is under attack, perhaps more than at any time since its foundation in 1948.
Good Council Guide
Over the last nine years, Conservative Wandsworht Council has reversed the downward spiral so typical of the inner city.
English our English
When children leave English schools today, few are able to speak and write English correctly; even fewer have a familiarity with the literacy heritage of the language.
Current Choices
Privatisation schemes can have three principal objectives, between which there are potential conflicts.
Britain Resurgent
In 1950, despite all the strains of the aftermath of a world war, the British people enjoyed the seventh highest living standard of major developed nations.
Alarm over A Levels
Very many people concerned with education look with alarm at the threat to educational standards at A-level.
To Spur, not to Mould
For as long as I can remember concern about our economic progress, compared with that of our competitors, has been the staple diet of both politicians and commentators.
The Wealthy Wellfairs
Humphery Wellfair had, during the long minutes his parachute swayed down to the desert atoll in 1944 been blissfully filled with thoughts of Beveridge, promising idyllic security from cradle to grave, at least in Britain.
The Unfinished Task
In a recent television programme about the post war reconstruction of Britain, a film clip was shown of Herbert Morrison addressing the Durham Miners rally on behalf of the Labour government.
