Part 1: The issues… The Covid-19 crisis has demonstrated one important truth. The international financial system is designed on terms that suit the owners of capital, not on terms that…
As the cost-of-living crisis mounts this winter, families with young children will suffer. Feeding and clothing your kids isn’t an optional extra, and with food inflation standing at 14.6% in…
A Reasonable Approach to Splitting Bills and Taxing Wealth is Key to Sound Finance and Fair Taxes Given the existing pressures on government finances, and – after years of austerity…
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…
For Labour to convince voters, it must first connect with them. In the current political climate, this is no easy task. 7 in 10 people don’t trust anything politicians say.…
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…
Re-imagining policing for the 21st century It is almost 200 years since Sir Robert Peel founded the Metropolitan Police. He did so in response to the social tumult unleashed by…
Defining and Communicating Fairness Well Can Build Support for Change Picture the scene. Aristotle, Jane Goodall and Judge Rinder meet at a party. What would they talk about? I’d put…