Martin Yuille Articles

The welfare state was constructed to combat what William Beveridge – academic, patrician and Liberal – called the five Giant Evils: Disease, Want, Ignorance, Squalor and Idleness. What has made the edifice so durable has not been the unwavering commitment of...

Boris Johnson, addressing the Centre for Policy Studies in London recently, defended greed and inequality as essentially good things. His brash reassertion of 1980s neoliberal dogma caused uproar. He lives the dogma: he truly lives the dream that it will soon be...

The key idea behind the ‘One Nation’ slogan is that, to address the nation’s problems, we need to bring people together. Britain needs to promote partnership and collaboration across society. One word – fragmentation – summarises why we need that partnership and...

Innovation is widely seen as a key driver of growth. But the public understanding – and politicians’ understanding – of innovation is naïve. This has led to short-termism, to manipulation of policy by vested interests in the research community, to chaotic governance...