By Dale Bassett, Research Director, Reform The OECD has just published its annual economic survey of the UK. The top lines are its support for lower public spending and its call for education reform to go much further. The OECD supports the cuts, and says that fiscal consolidation should be offset by keeping interest rates […]
Dale Bassett and Luke Tryl are the senior researcher and researcher at Reform, specialising in education. They are co-authors, along with Andrew Haldenby, of Core Business, which is published today. "The very best means of helping all realise their potential – of making opportunity more equal – is guaranteeing the best possible education for as […]
Dale Bassett is New Media Politics Executive for Reform. Centralised and technocratic – the shift to “Robocop justice” occurring in Britain today is the consequence of a substantial change in people’s response to crime. Citizens have become “passive bystanders”, happy to abdicate personal responsibility for criminal justice in favour of an ever-increasing role for monolithic […]
Dale Bassett is the Research Director of Reform. Given Andrew Lansley’s difficulties over the health reform Bill, it is unsurprising that ConservativeHome readers are taking comfort from the rest of the Government’s public service reform agenda. From welfare to education via local government, reforms are proceeding apace. Iain Duncan Smith is reforming benefits. Michael Gove is freeing schools. […]