New Economics Foundation

Are we talking about the economy in completely the wrong way? Framing the Economy is the largest ever study of how the British public understand the economy and how progressive organisations might...

No matter how you look at it, fracking as a large-scale endeavour for the UK seems pretty screwed. The finances of frackers are creaking. Local councils are simply refusing to roll over in the face of...

Our CEO, Miatta Fahnbulleh, spoke on BBC Question Time this month about the Prime Minister’s failure to fight inequality, and how the obsessive focus on Brexit draws attention from urgent issues. Watch here How language duped us into austerity Our report on Framing the Economy was covered by The Guardian and VICE UK NHS land sell-off to house nurses branded “short on hard evidence” in...

There’s been a panic in the stock markets in recent weeks after the Dow Jones plunged more than 1000 points on a single Monday in the first week of February. When the stock market plunges should we all...

Today people of all nationalities will be coming together to celebrate the contribution of migrants to UK society. 1 Day Without Us is a day of action that invites us to dance, cook, volunteer, or...

EVENT: King’s College London, 3pm-4.30pm Monday 19th February We live in an era of division. Many countries around the world are suffering stark inequalities between rich and poor, young and old, metropolitan and rural, settled and newcomer. And this is driving new and potentially dangerous forms of politics to the fore. There is an urgent need for ideas and initiatives to bridge these...

Report by NEON, NEF, Frameworks Institute and PIRC What is the story of the economy in Britain? Who gets to shape public opinion about what it’s for, how it’s broken and how it can be fixed? These are the questions the Framing the Economy project set out to answer. We wanted to help civil society communicate and organise more effectively, to help bring about the changes needed to move...

The collapse of Carillion and the plight of other outsourcing companies like Capita are the latest examples of what Bank of England chief economist Andy Haldane calls ‘shareholder capitalism eating...

Brexit dominates the news agenda. But with all the talk of the single market, impact assessments and trade deals, it sometimes feels as if this debate is only happening in the comment pages of...

On Thursday 25th January, demonstrators stormed the Royal College of Music in protest against the sacking of several night cleaners by the cleaning firm Tenon FM. The cleaners are currently on strike and serving out their notice periods after rejecting a new...