Health, Education & Welfare

17 Mar 23

Review: How to Make an Entrepreneurial State. Why Innovation Needs Bureaucracy, by Rainer Kattel, Wolfgang Drechsler and Erkki Karo.

Paul Auerbach reviews 'How to Make an Entrepreneurial State. Why Innovation Needs Bureaucracy' by Rainer Kattel, Wolfgang Drechsler and Erkki Karo.

Paul Auerbach

Work & Trade Unions
Trade
Health, Education & Welfare

Public Policy | Book review

24 Feb 23

Review: NHS under Siege. The Fight to Save it in the Age of Covid, by John Lister and Jacky Davis

Britons of all persuasions routinely describe their country’s institutions as the best in the world and would insist that its levels of corruption are the very lowest. How government tackled the pandemic suggests that the latter needs some review.

Colin Crouch

Covid-19
Health, Education & Welfare

Government & Parliament | Digested Read

10 Feb 23

The Pandemic Brought the Vulnerabilities of Local Government into Sharp Focus

What were the responses of local government during the pandemic? What do these responses reveal about the resilience of local government?

Tania Arrieta

Covid-19
Health, Education & Welfare

Public Policy | Digested Read

24 Jan 23

Beveridge at 80: Learning the Right Lessons

Those calling for a ‘new Beveridge’ should take inspiration from his spirit of permanent endeavour, instead of treating his welfare reforms like a blueprint.

Gavin Kelly and Nick Pearce

Health, Education & Welfare

Political Ideas | Digested Read

17 Jan 23

Why a Social Guarantee Matters now More Than Ever

What if the primary purpose of the economy was to meet everyone's needs within the limits of the natural environment?

Anna Coote

Health, Education & Welfare
Labour Party

Society & Culture | Book review

31 Dec 22

Review: Rule, Nostalgia. A Backwards History of Britain, by Hannah Rose Woods

Richard Mullender reviews 'Rule, Nostalgia: A Backwards History of Britain' by Hannah Rose Woods.

Richard Mullender

Sovereignty
Health, Education & Welfare

Public Policy | Blog

12 Dec 22

Can Poverty Really be Abolished?

A strategy to tackle widespread impoverishment must recognise the critical effect of the process of wealth accumulation at the top on low incomes at the bottom.

Stewart Lansley