by Pat McFadden MP | Dec 7, 2017 | Section: Progress Magazine
Idleness: Where the right offers grievance, the centre-left needs to offer an answer – and honesty, writes Pat McFadden Take back control’. ‘Make America great again’. Two winning slogans from campaigns that have changed the face of politics in the United Kingdom and...
by Luciana Berger MP | Dec 7, 2017 | Section: Progress Magazine
Want: The food bank has replaced the soup kitchen and look permanent as Tory cuts persist When William Beveridge identified ‘want’ as one of his five giants, the memories of soup kitchens, dole queues and children with rickets were fresh in the collective mind. The...
by Karen Buck MP | Dec 7, 2017 | Section: Progress Magazine
Squalor: Council housing is in retreat and the private rented sector out of control No one wrote squalor like Charles Dickens. Just as society was waking up to the risks – individual and public – of the urban slums of industrial Britain, Dickens captured the images...
by Kathleen Henehan | Dec 6, 2017 | Section: Progress Magazine
Ignorance: Beveridge would be heartened by the educational progress but ashamed of the skills inequality Looking back at William Beveridge’s Britain, he was right to denounce ‘ignorance’ as a giant on the road to reconstruction. Then, roughly 80 per cent of children...
by Karin Smyth MP | Dec 6, 2017 | Section: Progress Magazine
Social class persists as a key determinant for life expectancy and good health Disease In 1942, two drivers of William Beveridge’s concern for the giant evil of disease were the need to combat life expectancies that saw women, on average, dying in their mid-fifties...
by Nicholas Timmins | Dec 6, 2017 | Section: Progress Magazine
The left would do well to reclaim the language of Beveridge as a way of re-shaping the welfare state debate, or risk losing it to the Conservatives, believes Nicholas Timmins The end of last month marks the 75th anniversary of the publication officially titled the...
by David Adler | Dec 5, 2017 | Section: Web exclusive
There is no ‘silver bullet’ to solve the housing crisis, but the land value tax comes pretty close, finds David Adler More than any Conservative government in modern history, Theresa May’s is serious about housing. It is May’s ‘personal mission’ to fix the...
by Peter Kellner | Dec 4, 2017 | Section: Progress Magazine
Non-financial productivity gains need measuring through ‘gross domestic utility’, not gross domestic product, otherwise public services and social justice will suffer, argues Peter Kellner Something weird is going on. We need to do some delving to get to the bottom of...
by Katy Clark | Dec 4, 2017 | Section: Progress Magazine
Help Jeremy Corbyn build a country for the many not the few, writes Katy Clark Democratic socialism puts people in charge. The democracy review Jeremy Corbyn has launched gives our party the opportunity to see our principles in action by transforming into a truly...
by Conor Pope | Dec 4, 2017 | Section: Progress Magazine
The Katy Clark ‘democracy review’ wears its faction on its sleeve, believes Conor Pope It is true that a mass movement behind the Labour party is desirable and provides a convenient well for a range of fresh ideas; new technology allows the opportunity for that mass...
