Published by The Independent (15th December, 2014) Myths and mantras are swirling around the increasingly-toxic immigration debate as mainstream parties flounder in the face of Ukip’s insurgency. These […]
Economics / Housing / Policy / Technology
Why battle to save sickly shops on the high street when we need homes?
Published in The Guardian (17th January, 2014) It has become a January ritual: the nation’s retailers reporting one after another how they performed over the crucial Christmas period. […]
Disability / Policy / Politics / Welfare
All we can agree on is that welfare’s in a state
Published in The Independent (April 2nd, 2013) What a strange world we live in. A clutch of Church leaders spent their holiest weekend of the year queuing up to […]
Immigration / Policy / Politics
The immigration debate: evidence-free and more rancid than ever
Published in The Guardian (26th March, 2013) Nigel Farage must have been smiling to himself as he supped his pint of real ale last night. His party has no […]
Economics / Housing / Policy
We must make it easier to build homes in London
Published in the London Evening Standard (January 4th, 2013) There are plans for a handful of new houses in my neck of north London. It is a modest […]
Disability
Put people with learning difficulties at the core of society
Published in The Observer (December 2nd, 2012) Another day, another outbreak of hand-wringing over how to protect vulnerable people from abuse in so-called care homes. Yesterday, it was […]
Housing / Policy / Politics
The housing crisis: a nightmare caused by our sanctified suburban dreams
Published in The Guardian (August 21st, 2012) Another day, another housing report. This time it is Policy Exchange, the prime minister’s favourite thinktank, urging the sale of social […]
Policy
At last, a good way to help the homeless
Published in The Daily Telegraph (November 15th, 2010) Simon had been using drugs and sleeping rough for nearly two decades, resisting endless demands to come in from the […]
Policy
Cutting out the middle men
Published in The Economist (November 6th, 2010) When the workers in the City of London head home each evening, a hidden legion of homeless people shuffles out of […]