Michael Jacobs
Professorial Fellow and Head of Engagement and Impact, SPERI
Lessons in Power: what can the new Labour government learn from the last one?
Michael Jacobs and Mems Ayinla - 9 July 2024A brand new podcast series from 'SPERI Presents...' invites former advisors and ministers from the 1997-2010 Labour governments to reflect on lessons for Starmer and his Cabinet. Listen on Spotify.
Labour’s Green New Deal is among the most radical in the world- but can it be done by 2030?
Michael Jacobs - 21 October 2019Whilst the ambition of Labour’s GND should be applauded, questions remain regarding its technological and political feasibility.
The Green New Deal: Easier said than done?
Michael Jacobs - 03 July 2019How might a Green New Deal be imagined in the UK context? And what are the challenges that would face advocates of the GND given the current political and institutional climate?
What exactly is the Green New Deal?
Michael Jacobs - 26 June 2019The Green New Deal is being championed in the USA as a solution to the joint problems of climate change and economic inequality. But what exactly is it, and what is its wider significance?
‘Net Zero’ and the innovation-policy nexus
Michael Jacobs - 13 June 2019The adoption of radical policies and targets to combat climate change can speed up the process of innovation and reduce costs associated with emissions reductions
Compromise seems to be the hardest word
Michael Jacobs - 11 April 2019Politics is the art of compromise, isn’t it? The EU gave us a good example last night, splitting the difference between the long extension of Article 50 sought by most of its members and the much shorter one demanded by President Macron. But in the UK Parliament compromise seems to be the hardest word. And the result, it is now clear, threatens to leave the UK in European limbo not just till the new October deadline, but indefinitely.