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Donald Hirsch

Articles by Donald Hirsch

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Be thankful for comprehensives

  • 10 December 2001

The latest school survey is a blow to advocates of selection: mixing up social classes reduces inequality without harming overall results

Has Brown sprung a new poverty trap?

  • 19 November 2001

Means tests do help the poor but the Chancellor has still to sort out the snags

Brown moves the goalposts

  • 12 March 2001

Both main parties are now promising extra cash for the disadvantaged. For British politics, that represents an astounding change

Help the over-50s work part-time

  • 11 December 2000

NS/Fabian Society Second-Term Agenda - Help the over-50s work part-time

Say thank you to Mr Brown

  • 25 September 2000

This is the first Labour government in history to do more for social justice than it promised

The end is nigh for the Beveridge welfare state

  • 27 March 2000

Donald Hirsch finds the Chancellor not guilty of stinginess to the poor, but records an open verdict on his use of means tests to help them

Blair has made a historic pledge

  • 24 January 2000

Do the workless have to be idle?

  • 26 July 1999

Donald Hirsch argues that the government's welfare policy, based on the idea that paid work is the answer to everything, is hopelessly unmodern

And what about the workless?

  • 12 March 1999

Donald Hirsch fears that new Labour's Budgets, though helpful to the poor, will have only a partial effect on social exclusion

Blair can learn from Stephen Fry

  • 11 December 1998

Governments usually become old and cynical. Donald Hirschhopes this one will be an exception

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