Britain faces deep inequality and a fractured social contract. Join academics, policy experts and civil society leaders to discuss practical pathways to a fairer future.

The New Money Myth: The Churn of Prototypical Elites and the Persistence of the Upper Class in Oil Boom Dallas, 1925–1942

This chapter analyses public attitudes towards spending on disability benefits and relevant trends in attitudes to welfare spending more broadly.

Extreme child poverty and rampant deprivation, coupled with police funding for a rural area rather than the metropolitan levels of crime being faced have been brought into focus by the A66 death crash

One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived.

Scientists working on artificial intelligence are more confident than the public that the technology will benefit people.

Behind its worldly and socially conscious aesthetic, the wellness industry serves the health and fitness interests of North American and European consumers by commercializing non-Western and Indigeno...

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The majority of Neets are not looking for work, but living outside of the labour market and the education system,...

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In many ways, the public want more government: to shape a fairer, more dynamic economy and protect ordinary people from the consequences of a turbulent wor

Fabian Society

Volume 68, Issue S1

Professors Sam Friedman and Aaron Reeves of the London School of Economics, authors of Born to Rule – a forensic, often very funny X‑ray of the British establishment, drawn from that venerable ...

Three decades of austerity in the UK have seen the deterioration of the elemental infrastructures, those that provided a basic level of security for the population. In this article, we analyse the ca...

6.30pm Wed 27 May | Professor Julian Go, Dr Mahvish Ahmad, Professor Aaron Reeves | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE

How race, class, gender, and place shape the ways working-class young people in Britain envision their transition from education to work

The Economist, Best Books of 2024The Times, Best Ideas Books of 2024A uniquely data-rich analysis of the British elite from the Victorian era to today: who gets in, how they get there, what they like ...

6.30pm Wed 27 May | Professor Julian Go, Dr Mahvish Ahmad, Professor Aaron Reeves | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE