The Talking Heads frontman considers dormant ideas that made a comeback – from Indian irrigation to Kafka

What matters most when it comes to healthy ageing is overall diet quality maintained consistently over time.

The Conservative leader has said the party will introduce stringent new rules for under-25s claiming benefits

Great links, images, and reading from Chartbook Newsletter by Adam Tooze

Tawney, Christian Socialism and Care, Mon 9 Nov 2026 - Fri 27 Nov 2026 - Crisis in Social Care and Unfinished Questions of Modernity With Britain’s social care system in crisis, what kind of care do ...

Mustafa Suleyman worries that Anthropic is training a simulation of a moral subject that could demand freedom.

The coalition government introduced the triple lock in 2011. It ensures the state pension rises each year by CPI inflation, average earnings growth, or 2.5 per cent, whichever is the highest. On paper...

Andy Burnham has said social care in England should be reformed - what are the possible options?

The old adage ‘sharing is caring’ doesn’t always apply

Shattered Nation: Slides

Cambridge Core - Finance and Society - Volume 12 - When finance becomes tech, Part I

Britain has private ownership while making the state responsible for planning via subsidies. The result is a zombie...

"Contention" published on by Berghahn Journals.

In an age when capitalism feels like an unwinnable game, extreme reactionary ideas and politics are on the rise. The Hunger Games, Game of Thrones, Squid Gam...

We often talk of having five senses as a universal truth. In reality, there may be more. Christian Jarrett explains the controversy

Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s Empire became a campus sensation because it offered a master theory for globalization at a moment when old Marxist categories seemed exhausted. But the capitalist int...

For many people, owning their own home feels like an increasingly distant dream

A unified treatment of different types of reasoning with concepts, such as category-based induction, nonmonotonic reasoning, analogies, and generics.Psycho

John Pring’s account reveals something of the character of austerity: it isn’t so much that the state withdraws...

Explore OECD data on wage taxes: how UK workers rank internationally, how the tax wedge has shifted since 1979, and why many still feel over-taxed.

Young people are more than three times as likely to be unemployed as the wider workforce and around two-thirds of the recent increase in NEET numbers has b

Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Mi...

What is too often seen as individual failure is the result of conditions and systems failing to respond. With a strong safety net, not one weakened by cuts, young people can reach their potential.

A deep dive into the social mind-brain, examining the processes we share with other social animals and illuminating those that are uniquely human.What Make

US financial hegemony is anchored not so much on the dollar as a currency as on the attraction of dollar-denominated financial assets.

The PM shouldn’t neglect what could be the ideal test case for his policies

Letter: Gerald Holtham suggests that it time to cut the 3.75% that the Bank of England pays out on the lenders’ reserves

Ruth Curtice takes a closer look at the 'defence versus welfare spending' debate, and explains why it's important we have a clear picture of how we spent the peace dividend while it was around.

Andy Burnham's rise to Prime Minister came off the back of a promise to 'end business as usual'. Here, 17 civil society organisations present a menu of policies to do just that.

The first section explains some basic ideas, and those familiar with arbitrage and the natural real rate of interest can skip to the auste...

It turns out most of us no longer believe in progress. And when that happens, it quickly becomes a crisis for societies like ours