All real capitalisms are impure hybrids, mongrels mixed with other strains.

One of the lessons of history is that even the deepest crises can be moments of opportunity. They bring ideas from the margins into the mainstream.

Cities simply don't have the powers they need to radically innovate in cutting obesity or the number of disaffected teenagers.

As with products on supermarket shelves, the public has a right to know where their financial products and services come from.

A tablet replacing an exercise book is not innovation, it's just a different way to make notes.

The biggest barrier to dealing with climate change is us: our own attachment to habits that are hard to shift, and our great ability to park or ignore uncomfortable choices.

On the environment and climate change, I suspect that future generations will think there was too much timidity, too much fear of upsetting business. Basically, New Labour was very nervous about regulating business, or requiring it to do anything, even when there was a very clear social or environmental case for doing so.