Enjoyed our British Government at LSE debate on whether we should build on the greenbelt (at some point, podcast should be available here )...

David Cameron may have been right to axe his regional benefit announcement (and not just because of the politics). As I have argued before,...

Our work published last week suggests that public sector employment is good for local services, bad for local manufacturing . In the short r...

For a while now, I have been looking at what happened to local authority employment in the early to mid-2000's to figure out what, if an...

I've been traveling without much time to keep up on the UK news (or blogging). A colleague pointed me to the story that Romney Marsh m...

Two completely unrelated stories: (1) the reintroduction of traffic wardens to a town suffering 'parking chaos' for the last year; ...

According to the BBC London is now France's sixth biggest city : "The French consulate in London estimates between 300,000 and 400...