New Economics Foundation

Chancellor Philip Hammond got out his red box again last week, to let us know how the country’s finances are – or aren’t – holding up, and what the Government’s going to be doing with its money this...

2017 has been a big year for union action on precarious work: United Voices of the World and Justice for Workers successfully campaigned to bring all cleaners in-house at the LSE and SOAS universities,...

Summary This paper argues for an industrial strategy for the UK that aims to achieve prosperity, social justice and ecological sustainability. Government must get national policy right – delivering certainty for investors in sustainable industries and ensuring that the ‘rules of the game’ deliver decent, well-paid jobs across the UK. But it would be wrong to conceive, as is often the...

In response to today’s Autumn Budget, Miatta Fahnbulleh, Chief Executive of the New Economics Foundation, said: “We are facing big economic problems as a country, and this Budget barely scratches the...

It should not come as a particular surprise to learn that many of the promises made by the Leave campaign are turning out to bear little relationship to reality. As with £350 million a week for the...

By Andrew Pendleton and Joe Beswick NEF’s pre-Budget briefing argues that the Chancellor should create a People’s Land Bank as the central plank of a People’s Budget for the 21st century. Britain is facing an “economic malaise” driven by falling living standards, growing indebtedness and increasing wealth inequality. With Brexit only set to make this crisis worse, this is the last...

Pro-Brexit campaigners have argued leaving the EU means Britain can “take control” of its fisheries. But what does Brexit really mean for fishing communities and for the future of our fish stocks? This...

Summary 1. Fishing is a totemic issue for brexit. Its politics matter Few issues better symbolise the politics of Britain’s exit from the EU (Brexit) than fisheries. Fishing, like the sea itself, is...

Brexit is almost certain to hit fishing communities hard, new research suggests Boats without quota, processors, retailers and wholesalers will be worse off under nearly all Brexit scenarios Brexit could lead to an increase in overfishing, with disastrous environmental and economic results New Economics Foundation urges the UK government to pursue co-operative approach to Brexit...

In The Rings of Saturn, W. G. Sebald’s account of a long walk he took in Suffolk, he writes: “It’s hard to imagine now… that the white flecks of the windmills lit up the landscape just as a tiny...