How Thomas Piketty found politics
Ten years after publication, Capital in the Twenty-First Century remains a landmark study of inequality. Did it change anything?
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The Research Brief: attempts to tackle north-south inequality have failed
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As inequality rises, life expectancy falls
The pandemic is only part of the story behind the drop in the average age that Britons can expect to…
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Long and healthy lives will be the ultimate indicator of levelling up
We can’t claim to be focused on tackling regional inequalities if gaps in life expectancy are widening.
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The Research Brief: health inequalities linked to over a million early deaths
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If given the chance to succeed, levelling up could transform the UK
Whoever wins the next election must commit to infrastructure and regeneration projects that tackle stark regional inequalities.
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Why South Yorkshire needed a citizens’ assembly for net zero
Oliver Coppard, the regional mayor, on his new approach to formulating climate policy.
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Equality, diversity and inclusion are no luxury for the NHS
This is about providing better care, not political correctness.
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The Research Brief: why raising taxes might be central to tackling regional inequalities
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The Policy Ask with Michael Marmot: “Listen to advice from older people, but feel free to ignore it”
The professor of health inequalities on telling the truth, knowing the numbers, and staying close to the evidence.
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Hands off the triple lock
The policy has reduced grim pensioner poverty – and politicians tinkering with it will not lessen inequality.
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Britain’s great tax con
The UK’s tax system entrenches inequality, stymies growth, and rewards a few at the expense of the many.
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Digital exclusion is leaving coastal communities behind
We need investment into connectivity, or inequalities will only widen.
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Will Labour level up?
The party is still trying to define the slogan, but the focus on devolution is a good start.
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Why are Brits on £180k so sad?
A new study of the wealthy reveals they feel just as precarious as the rest of us.
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Why affirmative action failed
Higher education is not an adequate means to achieve a more just society.
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To truly tackle regional disparities, we need a new type of devolution
PwC’s Good Growth for Cities Report shows that empowering local leaders is central to closing the economic gap between places.
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The scourge of greedflation
A fifth of the UK is going hungry. Yet this is a crisis the political class seems unable to grasp.
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Keir Starmer: This is what I believe
Why we need a new mission-driven politics to renew Britain and defeat the enemies of progress.
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Jeremy Hunt didn’t fix anything
The Budget did nothing to address the UK’s fundamental problems: Brexit and a deeply unequal economy.
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