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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The Research Brief: why raising taxes might be central to tackling regional inequalities
Your weekly dose of policy thinking.
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The Policy Ask with Michael Marmot: “Listen to advice from older people, but feel free to ignore it”
The professor of health inequalities on telling the truth, knowing the numbers, and staying close to the evidence.
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Hands off the triple lock
The policy has reduced grim pensioner poverty – and politicians tinkering with it will not lessen inequality.
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Britain’s great tax con
The UK’s tax system entrenches inequality, stymies growth, and rewards a few at the expense of the many.
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Digital exclusion is leaving coastal communities behind
We need investment into connectivity, or inequalities will only widen.
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Will Labour level up?
The party is still trying to define the slogan, but the focus on devolution is a good start.
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Why are Brits on £180k so sad?
A new study of the wealthy reveals they feel just as precarious as the rest of us.
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Why affirmative action failed
Higher education is not an adequate means to achieve a more just society.
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To truly tackle regional disparities, we need a new type of devolution
PwC’s Good Growth for Cities Report shows that empowering local leaders is central to closing the economic gap between places.
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The scourge of greedflation
A fifth of the UK is going hungry. Yet this is a crisis the political class seems unable to grasp.
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Keir Starmer: This is what I believe
Why we need a new mission-driven politics to renew Britain and defeat the enemies of progress.
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Jeremy Hunt didn’t fix anything
The Budget did nothing to address the UK’s fundamental problems: Brexit and a deeply unequal economy.
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HS2 and the moral problem of Nimbyism
We need to start calling out Nimbyism for what it is: a miserly system of privileging one group over another.
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Why recessions make the rich richer
The boss of Harrods has admitted his department store prospers during a recession. This is a clear failure of fiscal…
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The real reason to worry about young people not getting married
Supporters of marriage should be more concerned about financial insecurity than a pernicious woke agenda.
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Libertarians hated it, but the sugar tax might just have worked
Researchers think it could have helped prevent obesity. Now there are calls to extend the levy and use it to…
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We can’t ignore the pensions time bomb
Younger workers could end up with higher taxes and poorer pensions while subsidising comfortable retirees.
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The Daily Mail’s tax statistics are an own goal
If half of income tax is paid by 10 per cent of earners, it only goes to show how unequal…
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