Welfare State
Third Time Unlucky
“We should never trust the government — any government — to look after us in old age”
Something For Nothing Just Won’t Do Any More
To provide for Britain’s ageing population, Iain Duncan Smith should embrace the contributory principle in his welfare reforms
Pension Pot Luck
Imagine being allowed to own your own pension. Why, you might do something silly with it.
Time For An NHS Mark II
“The most radical health reforms will be made necessary in the next Parliament by events, dear reader, events.”
We Can Fix The Economy But Not Human Nature
In the Church of England’s new book the Archbishops of Canterbury and York are too focused on inequality rather than poverty, greed and folly
The Turbulent Minister is Right
British churchmen look to America’s example on welfare
Pension Pretense
‘Pensions do not grow on trees and never did. That was an illusion’
School Meal Deal
The Deprived Pupil Premium — the eligibility criterion for two years’ free university tuition — favours the work-shy and discriminates against working single parents
The Aged: “Help!”
‘If you’ve always paid your way in your working life, you’ll pay your way as you die’
Back to Beveridge or Welfare Will Go Bust
Iain Duncan Smith has made a good start on reform but he needs to restore the insurance principle
Tolerating the intolerant
“For those who thought that a global pandemic would sound the death knell for identity politics, think again”
How to prevent the next pandemic
‘I have been reporting as a science journalist for years that the world is at increasing risk of pandemics like this; that this was predicted; that we know what we need to do to prepare and we simply haven’t done it; and that more and worse pandemics are coming so we need to do that, now’
D’où parles-tu? The post-truth world
Power, illusion and the open society: how postmodernism undermines our foundational concepts