New funding, reformed commissioning and a proper industrial policy are the basic requirements of a resilient social...
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William Beveridge Articles
A new Marshall plan for the working class
Idleness: Where the right offers grievance, the centre-left needs to offer an answer – and honesty, writes Pat...
No less revolutionary
Want: The food bank has replaced the soup kitchen and look permanent as Tory cuts persist When William Beveridge...
A tide turning back
Squalor: Council housing is in retreat and the private rented sector out of control No one wrote squalor like Charles...
Post-16 needs to be the focus
Ignorance: Beveridge would be heartened by the educational progress but ashamed of the skills inequality Looking back...
Health inequality costs
Social class persists as a key determinant for life expectancy and good health Disease In 1942, two drivers of William...
Seventy-five years young?
The left would do well to reclaim the language of Beveridge as a way of re-shaping the welfare state debate, or risk...
Labour must lead to save the NHS
This week, emergency wards in England will be empty of junior doctors for the first time since the creation of the...
British Liberal Leaders
This book is the third in an impressive series on political leadership in Britain’s mainstream parties which we owe to...
Five giant causes
Labour’s next mission In 1942 William Beveridge identified the five ‘giant evils’ of society: squalor, ignorance,...
‘I will give my life to this party’
‘Mine is the real anti-austerity politics, because it will help Labour win and stop the vile things the Tories are...
Battleground Britain
Forty years ago this month, Harold Wilson led Labour back to power and ejected Edward Heath from Downing Street. It...