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O Lucky Man !
Cardinal Mazarin (not Napoleon) valued lucky generals over skilful ones. Rishi Sunak appears to be a very lucky Chancellor indeed*.
a) He's jumped a generation to get into No 11 -... read more

arc4 Director Derek Long gives his unique take on the strategic implications of 2019's General Election result.
The North will need to move quickly if it is to benefit from Johnson's new-... read more

Just like the Great British Sewing Bee this series, we’re all for repurposing at arc4. Not curtains or duvet covers into dresses in our case, although we do have some keen crafters in the team………

I became a consultant in 2004, it seems so long ago now and yet has flown by. One of the reasons I think arc⁴ has been so successful is because we move with the times; providing intelligence to... read more

It seems that the government has at last realised that there is a housing problem if not a housing crisis.
Moreover, it also seems that Ministers have recognised that local authorities and housing... read more

"Wir können es schaffen! - We can do it!" was the message of hope sent by arc⁴'s Derek Long to an Austrian National Housing Federation national conference.

arc⁴ Director, Derek Long, is to address a prestigious Austrian national housing association conference on the English social housing crisis.
The only speaker based outside Austria and Germany, he... read more

arc⁴ Director, Derek Long, dissects the implications for supported housing commissioners of the government's latest consultation on funding
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To make a real impact on rural housing need for older people, Lord Best’s HAPPI 4 inquiry needs to pose some hard questions about our planning system.

It is over 18 months since Washington Post columnist Anne Applebaum, in a deeply prescient piece, announced that the World could be only “two or three bad elections” away from the end of NATO, the EU... read more