What’s past is prologue
This report from UK think tank Localis explores unlocking the value of heritage for local economies. Heritage connects the past, present and future of place. Historic buildings, landscapes, collections, skills, stories and traditions shape local identity while supporting employment, visitor economies, wellbeing and community life. Yet heritage remains too often confined to conservation or tourism...
What is the left for? The case for a politics of reciprocism
This report from UK think tank IPPR call for reciprocism, where the state should do more for us, and ask more in return. Reciprocism is based on a simple idea: the state should do more for people, while asking more of them in return. Instead of treating people as individual consumers, progressives should treat them...
Development corporations
This report from UK think tank City-REDI calls for a stronger evidence base to identify which models, powers and financing approaches work best in different circumstances. This report provides a timely stocktake of how development corporations have been used across the UK, the emerging pipeline of new proposals, and the conditions likely to determine their...
Child poverty and community wealth building in Preston
This report from UK think tank CLES suggests that community wealth building can help to retain the benefits of economic development in the community. Since working with CLES to adopt community wealth building in 2013, Preston’s approach has become internationally recognised and has helped to shape community wealth building practice across the UK and beyond....
Housing Outlook Q3 2026
This report from UK think tank the Resolution Foundation explores the housing outlook in Q3 of 2026. Britain’s new Prime Minister has put “council housing” at the heart of his programme for government. The case for building more affordable homes is strong: near-record numbers of families in England are living in temporary accommodation today, and...
Seizing a rare opportunity
This report from UK think tank the King's Fund explores scaling ambient voice technology in the NHS. The King’s Fund argues that ambient voice technology (AVT) presents a significant opportunity to reduce administrative burden, improve staff experience and enhance patient care across the NHS, but only if implementation is supported by service redesign, workforce training...
New choices: Revisiting futures for higher education in England
This report from UK think tank HEPI sets out four potential scenarios for how the sector might resolve its financial challenges. English universities face ‘unstable hybrid’ future as funding model collapses faster than predicted, warns new report. English higher education is heading into a future nobody planned, according to a new paper from the Higher...
Safeguarding the constitution
This report from UK think tank the Constitution Unit focuses on protecting the constitution. The tumultuous past decade in UK politics has demonstrated the need to better protect the constitution. This new report makes 28 recommendations across seven topic areas for how to safeguard the UK constitution and protect the integrity of our democracy. Many...
UK FATF mutual evaluation taskforce: Second meeting report
This report from UK think tank RUSI analyses the UK's evolving anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing risks ahead of the 2027 FATF mutual evaluation. This paper provides a timely and authoritative analysis of the UK’s evolving anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorist financing (CFT) risks ahead of the 2027 Financial Action Task Force (FATF) mutual evaluation...
A mid-career fast stream
This report from UK think tank Re:State outlines how a mid-career fast stream would work. The challenges facing the public sector are daunting, but for many people that’s why they want to work in government. Civil service roles come with the chance to make a real difference to people's lives, and some of the best and...
