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Though the size of the global middle class is growing, their political power is shrinking in the face of austerity.
50th Anniversary Blog Series

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 country visit to the UK. His conclusion that the evaporation […]

Research shows that the British middle and upper classes have taken more in welfare in recent years than have the working class.
50th Anniversary Blog Series

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 the UK welfare state. In 1958, amidst growing concern and […]

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50th Anniversary Blog Series

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 introduction of the British welfare state — Citizen Clem by […]

David Lammy, MP for Tottenham, spoke out after the Grenfell Tower fire, and argued for the importance of 'bringing back the social.'
50th Anniversary Blog Series

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 […]

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