This report explores the greater role that local authorities can and should play in stimulating investment and economic growth in their areas, and sets out recommendations for models of capital investment which could deliver much-needed returns for the North and other regions.

Incorporating both published performance data and interviews with people working at all levels of the UK's foreign investment system, this new report asks how the current system could improve outcomes for businesses and local areas in the north of England.

Jon Cruddas, head of Labour's policy review, joined IPPR in a listening event with St Mungo's and Revolving Doors service-users as part of our Condition of Britain project (London, 25 April 2013). Listen to some of the participants relating their experiences and ideas for change.

IPPR spoke to Steve Smith, vice chancellor of Exeter University and former president of Universities UK, to find out what he thought of the arguments put forward by Michael Barber in An avalanche is coming: Higher education and the revolution ahead, and what he thinks the future of higher education will look like.

Following the launch of a major new IPPR publication, report author Michael Barber explains that  'it's a time for bold thinking at university level' and that if  you 'stand still in the face of an avalanche, you get run over'.

Speaking at IPPR's London office, shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper made a keynote address on the Labour party's approach to immigration policy.

Speaking at Community Links in East London, Labour Policy chief Jon Cruddas launched IPPR's major new research programme, The Condition of Britain, which will focus on the resilience and resources in British society and consider how to harness the state, market and community to advance core social goals.