In his influential book The road to somewhere David Goodhart claims that a split between a majority of people who are rooted in particular places or groups (the “Somewheres”) and a minority of people...

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...

Presenting themselves as common people has become a bit of trend among UK elites and politicians. This strategy is surprisingly effective, but with limits.

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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 ...