New SMF Director Emran Mian blogs from the Liberal Democrat party conference and outlines the fiscal challenges facing the party in the run up to the general election in 2015.
New Social Market Foundation Director Emran Mian offers his thoughts on the Social Market Economy after 10 years at the top of Britain's civil service.
The Ministry of Justice is engaged in a radical overhaul of the probation service. The big idea is to pay non state providers according to how much they cut reoffending levels in their area. But do the detailed plans stack up? Ian Mulheirn argues that new analysis the SMF has published today, we argue that they don’t and that providers have no incentive to cut reoffending.