Other Books

Top Man: How Philip Green Built his High Street Empire, Aurum, 2006 ( with Andy Forrester)
* Named as one of the Financial Times’s five ‘business books of the year

Rich Britain, The Rise and Rise of the New Super-Wealthy, 2006

Poor Britain, Allen & Unwin, 1985, (with Joanna Mack).
Poor Britain | Poverty and Social Exclusion

  • Exceptionally convincing, H. Halsey, The Observer, 10 March 1985.
  • The natural successor to Peter Townsend’s great work, David Donnison, Social Science Review, 1985.

Councils in Conflict: The Rise and Fall of the Municipal Left, Macmillan, 1989, (with S Goss and C Wolmar)

Beyond Our Ken, The Battle for London, Fourth Estate, 1985 (with A Forrester and R  Pauley)

Housing and Public Policy, Croom Helm, 1979.

Poverty and Progress in Britain, Cambridge University Press, 1975, (with G.C. Fiegehen and A.D. Smith)

  • A landmark [study] in its field, easily the most reliable and informative work of its kind. Charles Madge, Times Literary Supplement, 27 January 1975. 
  • Extraordinary resourcefulness … Masterful. Journal of Social Policy, 1978.