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For years schools have been sending pupils the message that women are worth less than men. It’s our moral duty to fix that.

Immigration has been suggested as the reason for why a narrow majority of people in the UK voted for Brexit. The concept was used to stoke up fear in areas of low immigration.

A fall in inequality can begin without policy and political changes, but they help sustain it.

Until recently we had been using the rising profits of undertakers to gauge how unusual recent rises in mortality have been. However, we can no longer do that.

In March 2018 we learnt that, in contrast to all other countries in Europe, both adult and infant mortality are now rising in the UK making an already awful situation worse.

In the eight years since the May 2010 general election, the health of people living in the United Kingdom has faltered.

Life expectancy in the UK has stalled. In many places, and for more vulnerable groups, it is now falling – on-line report in the New Statesman (March 2nd 2018).

The Nationwide Building Society has reported today, March 1st 2018, that prices fell by 0.3% last month, crushing expectations of a rise” Commentators explain: “Brexit and a weaker economic outlook reinforced a slowdown in the property market”.

As Brexit looms closer, various schemes for Britain to “find new markets” will be touted.

Utopia for Realists ends with its author professing admiration for Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman.

Immigration has been suggested as the reason for why a narrow majority of people in the UK voted for Brexit. The concept was used to stoke up fear in areas of low immigration.

Our housing system is in a mess. A child looking down from the window of a tower block on to Britain’s streets today will see the widest and clearest picture of what is getting rapidly worse.

When inequality is high people lose face, they lose confidence, they suffer from comparisons in which it is implied that the vast majority warrant little or no respect.

Brexit Vote 2016, Hung Parliament 2017, what in 2018?

Fifty years ago Martin Luther King argued that on poverty: “the programs of the past all have another common failing—they are indirect. Each seeks to solve poverty by first solving something else.” He argued for a guaranteed citizen’s income to eradicate poverty.