Commentary & Podcasts

SMF researcher Ben Richards summarises last week's ESRC-sponsored Chalk + Talk event, where the SMF hosted Gloria Laycock, Professor of Crime Science at UCL, who presented 7 key facts about crime, together with their implications for how to effectively reduce crime rates.

John McDonnell's speech was full of big names from the world of economics - Piketty, Mazzucato, Wren Lewis, Pettifor.

John McDonnell, Labour’s new Shadow Chancellor has been giving hints of what is to be in his conference speech on Monday.

In July, the Government embarked on a review to ‘develop recommendations for the longer-term future shape and financing of Network Rail’ following huge cost over-runs and missed targets from the organisation that manages our train lines.

A million new homes in England over the course of this Parliament.

This is the first in a series of blogs that we will write in anticipation of the Government’s spending review.