New Economics Foundation

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...

Afresh examination of the economic case for a third, north west runway at London’s Heathrow airport finds it eroded to the point where it is no longer viable. Now, using the Government’s own formula for assessing the value for money of transport schemes, Heathrow expansion along proposed lines would be rated as either ‘poor’ or ‘low’ value. MPs, who will debate the building of a third...

When politicians talk about economic strategy, they tend to focus on the shiny and high-tech. But there is a whole aspect of the economy which provides the basic goods and services needed for everyday...

There are a lot of reasons to worry about the UK and Russia getting increasingly stroppy with each other, but our lights and radiators going off isn’t one of them. In the grand scheme of things, we...

It’s one of the biggest contradictions in British politics. Across the country, baby boomers who own a house cheer as the value of their property rises. Meanwhile their millennial children watch on in...

After a full twenty months of tired heaving, it remains unclear whether the tug of war within government is being won by the Hard Brexit or Soft Brexit supporters. But that isn’t the only divide we’re...