How Finland could improve our health

By Jenni Viitanen
Guardian - Comment is Free - 11 August 2010
Britain's health inequality is the worst in Europe. Jenni Viitanen looks at how Finland turned things around in the 1970s

What's the Big Idea?

By Ed Cox
LocalGov.co.uk - 27 July 2010
There is something about the hopeful promise of collective action that every council should nurture, says Ed Cox.

Where is the party with a plan for the North?

By Ed Cox
Guardian online - 04 May 2010
An ippr north report has underlined the manifestos' lack of detail on regional matters.

Economic geography lessons

By Katie Schmuecker
Public Finance - 27 April 2010
Figures showing the public sector constitutes up to 70 per cent of the economy in some parts of the country are shocking, but deserve closer inspection.

Our grandchildren will wonder why we are addicted to social inequality

By Daniel Dorling
The Yorkshire Post - 26 April 2010
What would be on your list of the most damaging social evils in Britain today and how would you explain their survival? Danny Dorling explains how he has been addressing this question in a new book.

Realities of an Unequal and Unfair Society

By Rt Hon David Blunkett MP
The Yorkshire Post - 15 April 2010

Election 2010: Housing

By Eveyln Tehrani
www.egovmonitor.com - 29 March 2010
With housing repossessions on the rise, continuing job losses and greater insecurity in our day-to-day lives as a result of the current recession those of us who rely on social and affordable housing is likely to increase over the coming years.

Real change needs to move faster and further

By Katie Schmuecker
www.publicservice.co.uk - 25 March 2010
Big changes were only hinted at in Alistair Darling's latest Budget, as Katie Schmuecker, senior research fellow at ippr north, explains

It’s sour but it’s ours: calling a lemon a lemon in regeneration

By Ed Cox, Director, ippr north
- 07 March 2010
Ed Cox reports on his experience at a British Council ‘Urban Ideas Bakery’ – part of its Creative Cities Programme in Europe. He was invited as one of 40 or so local and international ‘bakers’ to participate in the three day event to develop solutions to address the decline of the central Kiraly Street in the Hungarian city of the town of Pécs.

A green future for Teesside

By Ed Cox, Director, ippr north
Guardian - 22 February 2010
With proper levels of investment and government support, offshore windfarms could fill economic gaps in the north-east

Putting the frontline first

By Ed Cox, Director, ippr north
Public Finance - 09 December 2009
Gordon Brown’s speech this week on smarter government was the product of two political imperatives, which, in combination, create an attractive win-win that all parties are keen to seize.