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.
Ten book published in 2024 and one extra, so good, that it is in the list again!
On 11 November 2024, on Armistice Day, Cat Hobbs of the lobby Group “We Own It”, called for a truce.
Spatial Inequalities and Wellbeing is a carefully brought together collection of nine chapters written by over twenty separate authors from the regional science/studies tradition.
In 2023, suicide rates in England & Wales reached their highest levels since 1999.
The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World brings together a selection of writings spanning two decades by the renowned anthropologist and anarchist David Graeber.
In many ways in the UK, we are currently at a peak of injustice and we have to choose which way to turn.
.. let’s talk about you and me; let’s talk about all the good things, and the bad things, that may be….
By 2023 the latest statistics, looked at in the round, began to suggest that it was not fanciful to believe that we had seen income inequality peak in 2018 and wealth inequality peak shortly afterwards.