Howard Davies at Social Europe discusses how the disciplines of economics and finance may become more useful in explaining the world.

The Economist charts the fall of net migration under the coalition and wonders if this marks a sudden and big change for Britain.

Chris Cook at the FT data blog looks at GCSE grade deflation and why this matters so much to schools.

Richard Murphy at Tax Research UK supports Nick Clegg’s idea to tax wealth and outlines six ways in which this could be done.

Jack Grove at Times Higher Education provides some extraordinary excuses used by students who have failed to hand their work in on time.