In September 2025, the British Election Study (BES) team released the latest results of a continuous survey of voters. What they were interested in was the decline in support for the Labour Party since the General Election of 2024.
On July 1st 2025, journalist Polly Toynbee wrote a story in The Guardian beneath the title: ‘To all who think capitalism can drive progressive change, it won’t
When Keir Starmer became Prime Minister he promised ‘change’, and this promise was beefed up in his 2024 Christmas message with his six promises.
Against the backdrop of recent global house price inflation, this paper addresses the question commonly asked about asset price booms and crises: ‘Is this time different?’
Those who declare the UK to be an island of estranged individuals are the ones who should be looking closer to home
“…examines the rise of nationalist and exclusionary rhetoric in British political discourse,
Extra regulation and less help with costs have made buy-to-let far less profitable. We ask if incentives are needed to keep the rental market going.
In 1973, Britain was the second most equal large country in Western Europe, and now it is the second most unequal of any country across the entirety of Europe.
Something is afoot. Recently, the economist Guy Standing invoked Thomas Paine’s old adage, that we are living in times that try men’s souls.
Another Spring in the UK, another set of statistics are released on child poverty. The British government does this just once a year.
Cuts to disability benefits will worsen health and the economy
Why did crime rise in Britain in the 1980s? Was it rising economic hardship, rising greed? A bit of both and something else? Was it the adoption of the mantra that there is “no such thing as society, just people and their families”?
There was once a time, long ago, when every year the population of the UK became more united as income inequalities fell and the public sector grew.
I am eight lots of seven years old (56). My generation grew up with Seven Up! – a warning and hope about what we might become.
