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Month: November 2017

Investing in apprenticeships is one way the the UK government can boost productivity post-Brexit, says Peter Taylor-Gooby.
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No 7: Brexit won’t work without a new welfare state

November 29, 2017 S-P-A-Administrator Comments Off on 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 becoming increasingly obvious that separation from the EU, however accomplished, […]

David Lammy, MP for Tottenham, spoke out after the Grenfell Tower fire, and argued for the importance of 'bringing back the social.'
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No 6: Back to the future? Reclaiming the social after Grenfell Tower

November 22, 2017 S-P-A-Administrator Comments Off on 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 the fire, Tottenham MP David Lammy gave an interview in […]

Dr Martin Luther King, Jr and other civil rights leaders met with President Lyndon Johnson, who launched the war on poverty, at the White House in 1964.
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No 5: Where do we go from here? Fifty years on from the ‘War on Poverty’

November 15, 2017 S-P-A-Administrator Comments Off on 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 the choice was between ‘chaos or community’. The book, published […]

Fiona Willaims pays tribute to victims of terrorism and the Grenfell Tower fire with her poem As If.
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No 4: As if: After Manchester, London Bridge, Grenfell Tower

November 8, 2017 S-P-A-Administrator 0

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 if those dying were mine as if the mums and […]

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No 3: Why the two-child policy is the worst social security policy ever

November 1, 2017 S-P-A-Administrator 3

by Jonathan Bradshaw What is the worst social security policy ever? There are many competitors for this accolade in our history — less eligibility in 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, the 1934 Unemployment Assistance Board […]

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