On 16 February 2022, roughly a week before Russia invaded Ukraine, the attention of the ‘EU bubble’ was elsewhere – in Luxembourg, to be precise. There, the Eur...
In recent years, something profound has been happening to the concept of social mobility. With the concept being reconsidered on both sides of the political spe...
Geopolitics has returned to Europe in a devastating and destructive fashion. Most obviously, there is Russia’s armed attack on Ukraine. But it has also returned...
Working people’s experiences of the Covid-19 pandemic have differed markedly. The richest ten men in the world have doubled their fortunes to more than £1 trill...
Has rape become de facto “de-criminalised”, as claimed by a number of women’s rights organisations?
There are around 128,000 victims of rape and attempted ra...
Pensions provision in the UK has been undergoing a series of revolutionary changes since the 1980s, driven by public policy. The Thatcher government introduced ...
Services make up around 80 per cent of UK economic activity. Prior to the UK’s departure from the EU and the Covid-19 pandemic, the EU was typically the destina...
A basic premise of the BBC’s long-running TV programme Would I Lie to You? is that contestants are rewarded for lying successfully. Commentators and colleagues ...
In most contemporary societies there are no longer any formal barriers to women's participation in politics and public life, but women continue to be under-repr...
“La basura es de los pobres (Rubbish belongs to the poor)!” shouted Montevidean wastepickers (known as clasificadores or classifiers) at a roadblock in the hist...
In 1970, the British Women’s Liberation Movement held its first conference at Ruskin College in Oxford. Among its four key demands were free twenty-four-hour nu...
The Glasgow Pact agreed at COP26 requires that every major country produces new 2030 commitments by COP27 next year. It won't be easy for any country to find wa...
