I can think of nothing worse than a think-tank where everybody agreed.

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

Deeper fulfilment is rather different from the happiness of seeing a good film or watching your team win at football, and it doesn't come at the push of a button.

There are hardly any apprenticeships in care; hardly any schools preparing teenagers for jobs in care; and few signs that politicians know what to do to raise the status and rewards for what will soon be one of our most important industries.

Computing should be taught as a rigorous - but fun - discipline covering topics like programming, database structures, and algorithms. That doesn't have to be boring.

Britain is rich in radicalism, and anyone who says that our society has drifted into fatalism and apathy should get out more.

Democratic nation states remain far more capable of managing the circuit of coercion, taxation and legitimation than any transnational bodies.