A new report from the Centre for Cities on youth unemployment makes for depressing reading. Youth unemployment stands at around 900,000 and...

There is a strong spatial component to the proposals in the Digital Britain reported published yesterday. A 50p a month levy on fixed tele...

It was SERC's annual conference last week (see what you missed here ) and I have been tied up with organising that as well as pushing f...

The conservatives published their thinking on housing policy yesterday. The biggest issue that housing policy needs to address is housing su...

I was in Manchester yesterday for the launch of the Manchester Independent Economic Review ( MIER ). The review argues that Manchester is t...

More gloomy reading from the housing market from the National Housing Federation who are predicting that waiting lists for social housing a...

The latest housing figures issued yesterday make for very depressing reading: A few "highlights": - Annual housing completions in...