Keir Starmer’s “Island of strangers” speech was right
The Prime Minister may regret his words but some of us live in the reality he described.
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Britain’s ghost children
School lifted me out of poverty. Today’s absence crisis denies that opportunity to thousands.
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Stained by shame: Britain’s hygiene poverty crisis
In the absence of state support, teachers are providing everything from clothing to soap.
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Child poverty is a scar on our national conscience
A Labour government has taken millions of children out of poverty before. It can do so again.
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The cost of austerity
A generation of children have been held back by political opportunism.
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Who’s afraid of Gary Stevenson?
The left has finally found an eloquent, honest and credible campaigner against inequality – we should champion him.
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Class war: the battle over private schools
Labour must recover its radical tradition and close Britain’s education privilege gap.
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The left after Trump
In an age of rampant inequality and oligarchic government, two leading thinkers ask: can democratic socialism survive?
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The sick town of England
Why are 13,000 people in Dover too ill to work?
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Universal basic capital could deflate Britain’s populist bubble
Reform is winning where wealth growth is weak. We need radical solutions.
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HS2 was never the north’s salvation
We have to abandon our obsession with this sinkhole of hope and money.
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Britain’s exam delusion
Assessment has eclipsed learning in an education system that fails students and worsens inequality.
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How Thomas Piketty found politics
Ten years after publication, Capital in the Twenty-First Century remains a landmark study of inequality. Did it change anything?
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The Research Brief: attempts to tackle north-south inequality have failed
Your weekly dose of policy thinking.
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As inequality rises, life expectancy falls
The pandemic is only part of the story behind the drop in the average age that Britons can expect to…
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Long and healthy lives will be the ultimate indicator of levelling up
We can’t claim to be focused on tackling regional inequalities if gaps in life expectancy are widening.
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The Research Brief: health inequalities linked to over a million early deaths
Your weekly dose of policy thinking.
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If given the chance to succeed, levelling up could transform the UK
Whoever wins the next election must commit to infrastructure and regeneration projects that tackle stark regional inequalities.
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Why South Yorkshire needed a citizens’ assembly for net zero
Oliver Coppard, the regional mayor, on his new approach to formulating climate policy.
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Equality, diversity and inclusion are no luxury for the NHS
This is about providing better care, not political correctness.
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