No 7: Brexit won’t work without a new welfare state
by Peter Taylor-Gooby We stand on the brink of a new golden age of the welfare state. As the UK staggers towards Brexit, it is […]
Month: November 2017
No 6: Back to the future? Reclaiming the social after Grenfell Tower
by John Clarke The Grenfell Tower fire has shaken many aspects of the prevailing British political culture. Most strikingly for me, in the aftermath of […]
No 5: Where do we go from here? Fifty years on from the ‘War on Poverty’
by Stephen Crossley In 1967, Martin Luther King began work on a book titled ‘Where Do We Go from Here?’, in which he argued that […]
No 4: As if: After Manchester, London Bridge, Grenfell Tower
by Fiona Williams For weeks I’ve been grabbed by the throat: deep sobs that hijack the roll out of sleep, gasping for air as […]
No 3: Why the two-child policy is the worst social security policy ever
by Jonathan Bradshaw What is the worst social security policy ever? There are many competitors for this accolade in our history — less eligibility in […]