New Economics Foundation

Back in November I invited a local solar installation company round to my house to take a look at the roof. I hadn’t expected it to be a money tree, but I was still surprised and disappointed when the quote came in. It would take 16 years to earn back a solar...

High rents....

To really “take back control” of UK fisheries, we must treat fishing rights as a public resource Griffin Carpenter argued that some fishing quota should be allocated based on social and environmental criteria to benefit our marine environment. Read more Ireland among worst offenders for overfishing, says new reportOur new report showing the EU members states most responsible for setting...

People’s lives are being blighted by traffic and toxic air. While politicians stand by, you can take action today. Protecting our families from pollution can sometimes feel like an insurmountable task,...

Aidan Rushby, CEO of MoveBubble, wants to make renting a home as easy as “ordering a pizza”. UberEats and Deliveroo have certainly made ordering a pizza easier, but they’ve also made it more exploitative. So far, in the workplace, automation and technology have...

In recent weeks, Cambridge Analytica has become the new bogeyman-of-choice. One little data firm is supposedly responsible for all the democratic turmoil in Europe and the US, from Brexit to Trump. The...

Universal basic income – an idea that almost no one had heard of just a few years ago – is now one of the most fashionable concepts in progressive politics. With automation increasing and wages...

Fisheries ministers risk damaging our natural resources beyond repair by consistently setting fishing limits above scientific advice. This is our third year running a series of briefings to identify...

A nerve agent attack on an ex-Russian spy and his daughter in Salisbury has led to a retaliation by the UK government – expelling diplomats and ramping up a war of words. With Putin winning another...

It is not every day that a report I’ve worked on is instantly and without discussion branded ‘deliberately misleading’. But Flying Low, our new report which re-examines the economics of expanding...