Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson: Spirit Level Lessons
A Six Point Plan For The Right (Left) Kind Of Active Government In 2009, we wrote The Spirit Level, based on our work as epidemiologists researching the social determinants of…
Jessica Prendergrast: Community, connection, capital – an economics of attachment
Every day in my small, coastal, ‘left behind’, town in the peripheral South West, on at least ten occasions, I ‘stop-and-chat’ to someone. They might be passing me on the…
Clare McNeil: The social investment state
Labour needs to unite its economic & social agendas to lead the country out of this deep malaise This winter millions are headed towards barely…
Michael Marmot: Build Back Fairer
Put Equity of Health and Well-being at the Heart of All Government Policy “Each morning, as they read the newspapers over breakfast, one of them would share an item ……
Rt Hon Gordon Brown: The duty we owe to our neighbours in need
It is time to restore our commitment to end child poverty for good It will be 80 years in December since the Beveridge report was published which promised every family and…