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Though the size of the global middle class is growing, their political power is shrinking in the face of austerity.

No 47: Farewell to the middle class?

June 26, 2019 S-P-A-Administrator 0

by Zoë Irving On Tuesday 22nd May 2019, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights released the final report on his […]

Research shows that the British middle and upper classes have taken more in welfare in recent years than have the working class.

No 27: Social security reforms have channelled welfare towards the rich: what research and policy agenda does this set?

April 23, 2018 S-P-A-Administrator 0

by Daniel Edmiston Seventy years ago, the National Assistance Act was passed as the final piece of the legislative jigsaw that saw the establishment of […]

No 11: Why welfare is a common good

January 3, 2018 S-P-A-Administrator 0

by Pete Alcock My summer reading this year included a new biography of Clement Attlee, leader of the post-war Labour administration generally credited with the […]

David Lammy, MP for Tottenham, spoke out after the Grenfell Tower fire, and argued for the importance of 'bringing back the social.'

No 6: Back to the future? Reclaiming the social after Grenfell Tower

November 22, 2017 S-P-A-Administrator 0

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 […]