How Rachel Reeves can escape her straitjacketwww.prospectmagazine.co.uk The chancellor is in a bind. If she is to increase NHS and teachers’ pay without breaking election promises on tax, she will have to become a master fiscal contortionist
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Contributing Editor at Prospect Magazine
Can Keir Starmer govern for the common good?www.prospectmagazine.co.uk The new PM’s tone is refreshing. But on key issues like housing and health, Labour must be vigilant against rampant vested interests
Kafkaesque Blog - Deprivation and the 2024 GEkafkaesque.blog The 2024 GE Election Results by Deprivation.
chris hanretty - Why wait for Survation?www.chrishanretty.co.uk chris hanretty’s site
The cost-of-living conundrumwww.prospectmagazine.co.uk Why falling inflation isn’t ending the crisis
The cost-of-living conundrumwww.prospectmagazine.co.uk Why falling inflation isn’t ending the crisis
‘My state pension was £880 – and my rent was £1,000’: how a 70-year-old man became homeless in Britainwww.theguardian.com Tony Sinclair had worked all his life – but still found himself sleeping rough. Then even his tent was taken away from him
The scandal that isn’t: poverty and this election campaignwww.prospectmagazine.co.uk Labour’s manifesto shrinks from the one change Britain needs most—scrapping the two-child benefit limit
The six trip hazards that await Starmerwww.prospectmagazine.co.uk Labour has unveiled “six first steps for change”—but in a fractured Britain, the political journey they point to remains perilous
Poverty prevention is our best hope. Here's some tangible ways to keep people warm, dry and fedwww.bigissue.com Despite inflation shrinking, Britain is plunging further into poverty. But all hope is not lost, prevention is key.
Notes from a more equal countrywww.prospectmagazine.co.uk Four stories that show how Norway does it
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Large local difficulties: collapsing councils and the next Labour governmentwww.prospectmagazine.co.uk The desperate plight of town halls spells economic as well as social ruin, but there might—just—be a way out
Class dismissedwww.prospectmagazine.co.uk Inequality was traditionally the central concern of economists—until it wasn’t. It may be time to re-read the classics
Daron Acemoglu: the opportunity economistwww.prospectmagazine.co.uk The winner of the World's Top Thinker, as voted for by you, urges us to actively steer the direction of progress
On the back of slaverywww.prospectmagazine.co.uk The propulsive effect of human trafficking on the entire British economy is at last being understood—but there’s still no coherent thinking about making amends
Tom Clark keynote speech – Community Housing Cymru Annual Conference 2023www.youtube.com Tom Clark, the author of Broke – Fixing Britain's Poverty Crisis – gives his keynote speech on the shocking poverty crisis unfolding across the UK, and explo...
Ending stagnation: Is Labour up to the task?www.prospectmagazine.co.uk Measuring the opposition’s platform against a major new report suggests the party is at least heading in the right direction when it comes to growth, but has much further to go when it comes to a de...
This is not a “grown-up” government. The autumn statement proved itwww.prospectmagazine.co.uk The whole purpose of Rishi Sunak’s administration was to restore steady leadership, but it is not equal to the times