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For many years the UK, and almost all other states in the world, have been reporting both the amount they spend on public services, and what they expect to spend in future,

For a few hours on Wednesday 30 June 2021, a report released by University College London’s Institute of Health Equity hit the headlines.

School meals are never termed “free” in Finland; they are simply called “lunch”.

The pandemic had an almost immediate and massive detrimental economic effect on the lives of the already worst-off in the UK,

Within the boundaries of the city of Oxford, for all of 2020, only 95 deaths were registered with COVID-19 being mentioned on the death certificate.

Census 2021 will reveal how a year of lockdowns and furlough has transformed the UK

An extra population survey, on top of next week’s, would provide information the country really needs.

The first death to be publicly attributed to coronavirus in the UK was of a woman in her seventies on March 5 2020.

In late January 2021, when I wrote these words, a debate was raging

Finland is rarely mentioned as an example by leftists and Greens who want to build a better future.

There are times when it appears to be that almost everything is changing. Now might well be one of those times.

I wrote this chapter because homeless in my home city of Oxford had become not just a local crisis, worse than it had ever been, but also part of the national scandal.

Where have we come from? Unemployment has not always been with us. In fact, the term was hardly used at all before 1900,

On the 25th of November 2020 the Chancellor of the Exchequer decided that, in the public sector, there would be no increase at all for many and a real-terms pay-cut for millions more in 2021.

For the third of society who live within a few miles of their parents, not seeing relatives at Christmas will make little sense if you see them most weeks anyway.