Welcome to my online Research Centre. Here you can find new research and thinking about how we can create fair chances, fair shares and a more United Kingdom in a 'world without walls'. A world that requires Government, politics and parties that are different to the 20th century to end the divisions of the past.

You can read my Guardian Articles here.

A world without walls
The forces at loose in the world today are creating what President Clinton called 'a world without walls'. Here are two studies about what those forces look like - and the world they may produce;
- Britain in 2020
- Towards a new agenda – because change happens
- The Fate We're In, article on Britain in 2020 for the Guardian
- The Left's Agenda for Science
- Cutting the West Midlands a slice of China’s business boom
- West Midlands can benefit from India's expansion

A More United Kingdom
We can build a world without walls. But it needs to still feel like home. Here are a few pieces that make the argument about how global forces risk deepening and isolation and what we need to do to change it;
- A More United Kingdom, Demos Article
- A More United Kingdom, Article for Prospect October 2008
- Putting our values centre, speech to Demos
- A Common Place
- 'Rise Up, Englishman', article for Spectator
- 'A Fight About Fraternity', Spectator July 2008.

Fair chances
In this new world, our job is to end old divisions. That includes giving everyone a fair chance to succeed and get on. In Hodge Hill, we have analysed what the challenge looks like, and undertaken two big projects to test how we encourage aspiration in low income schools, and get people off benefits and back to work.
- HH2020: Our vision for a fair community in Hodge Hill
- A Community We’re Proud Of: Liam's vision for a new Hodge Hill
- Getting more Kids into College - Aim Higher report
- Hodge Hill's Welfare to Work pilot report

Fair shares
If people are to embrace the world that is coming, they will need to see a return - outside their front door. Our economy could do well in the future. But part of the pay-off must be the renewal of our inner cities, the old power houses of economic progress. Here is a study exploring the complexities of this.
- Delivering full employment in our inner cities

Government and Politics That Are Different
Delivering these changes is a tall order. That's why government and politics need to change. Public services must put people and communities in charge of change. Political parties need to harness 'passion power' connecting people not only with the 'hard power' of elections; but the chance to personally deliver change in their community.

Government that is different
- Not choice but control, article on public service reform with Ann Rossiter
- Not Choice but Control, contribution to book, Public Matters, with Ann Rossiter
- Reinventing Government Again, book with Phil Collins for Social Market Foundation
- Information Age Government .

Politics that is different
- Power to the People: Next Steps for New Labour, article for Progress pamphlet
- Why Labour won
- Powered by Politics; Reforming Parties from the Inside, article for Parliamentary Affairs
- A Chance to Serve, article for Progess
- Migration: Myth Buster, April 2008 UKBA leaflet
- On the wrong side of history, article for Progress November 2008
-Fairness by design, article for the Fabian Review December 2008

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