England's housing system has a fundamental weakness: we rely overwhelmingly on private buyers to create the demand for new ...

An objection to business rate cuts is that they ultimately become a subsidy for landlords. Rents are constantly renegotiated ...

Today marks 10 years since the UK’s referendum on whether to leave or remain in the European Union. Into the mixing bowl went a background of austerity, NHS promises, notions of identity, a sense of ...

A troubling reality hangs over May’s local elections: trust in politics has collapsed. New polling in Greater Manchester commissioned by IPPR North, The Sortition Foundation and the Electoral Reform ...

How can progressives respond to the increasing ethnonationalist narratives of the political right? Last summer, after the most widespread racist rioting since 1919, IPPR wrote it was “a testament to ...

The North’s communities are ambitious for a better future, but face systemic and pronounced inequalities. Gaps in power, wealth, opportunity, and health result in shorter, sicker, less fulfilling ...

Why a more active state needs better statecraft. In many ways, the public want more government: to shape a fairer, more dynamic economy and protect ordinary people from the consequences of a turbulent ...

Giving mayors 5 per cent of income tax would double their local spending powerFormer Treasury minister Lord Jim O’Neill hails landmark report as crucial fo ...

As well as compelling moral reasons to reduce NHS waiting lists, there is also a convincing economic case to go further and faster on elective recovery. We find that delivering against the target set ...

A quarter of employees feel pressure to drink at workplace events, rising to 38 per cent of 18 to 24 year olds Workplace drinking culture driving absences as 31 per cent of workers call in sick in ...

Unlike many other comparable countries, the UK’s economic activity and employment rates are yet to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic. Improvements in population health have stagnated in the UK – a ...

Worker surveillance is as old as work itself, but new technology is making it easier and cheaper than ever. Data suggests that workplace surveillance practices have hugely expanded during the pandemic ...