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Wishful thinking will not close Britain’s inequality gaps
Optimism helps get us through tough times, and this pandemic has had plenty of those. The recent reopening of the…
Covid-19
31 August 2021
by Torsten Bell
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Whatever else ‘building back better’ was supposed to mean it is now clear it involves returning to exactly the system of social protection that existed before Covid struck.
The State
29 August 2021
by Gavin Kelly
The longer we remain hooked on imported fossil fuels, the longer our energy bills remain subject to the whims of global commodity markets
Net Zero
13 August 2021
by Jonathan Marshall
IPCC reports seldom bring good news, but the latest assessment finds that the crucial marker of a 1.5C temperature increase on pre-industrial times could be with us in just two decades
Net Zero
13 August 2021
by Jonathan Marshall
Lessons from the era of White Heat
5 July 2021
by Gavin Kelly
The UK is facing a decisive decade of economic change that the country is neither used to, nor prepared for.
Places
20 May 2021
by Torsten Bell