Sunday, June 14, 2015

Six of the Best 518

Why did the pollsters get it so wrong at the general election? A special extended edition of the Polling Matters podcast tries to find out.

"It is a strategy that ignores the potential that is in 100% of today’s labor force, 98% of next year’s, and a huge number of people who will be around for the next half-century." Ricardo Hausmann questions the orthodoxy that education is the key to economic growth.

David Hencke says cutting councillors in Newcastle upon Tyne is a dangerous move to dilute democracy.

 The Labour leadership election of 1976 was contested by Tony Benn, Jim Callaghan, Anthony Crosland, Michael Foot, Denis Healey and Roy Jenkins. Alwyn W. Turner looks back.

Elizabeth Day talks to Alistair McGowan about his experience of portraying Jimmy Savile in a new play.

Rebecca Mead on the appeal of Middlemarch.

1 comment:

Phil Beesley said...

"It is a strategy that ignores the potential that is in 100% of today’s labor force, 98% of next year’s, and a huge number of people who will be around for the next half-century." Ricardo Hausmann questions the orthodoxy that education is the key to economic growth.

And it is impossible for Liberal Democrats to question policies which provide university education for middle class kids, at the exclusion of others who are not "working class enough" to win a grant. No doubt, the party has valid policies for continuing education, learning on the job.

But our party has not used its heritage to create an intellectual movement. We have allowed Tories and Labour to steal our ideas. Borrowing ideas is fine, but people need to know that they are Liberal ideals.