News & Insight

Radical London

21 November 2017

At dawn on the 21 September 1960 bailiffs crashed through the roofs of two council flats in the St Pancras district of central London. After hours of fighting they finally evicted the tenants but what followed was some of the...

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The sustainable development goals come to the world and the UK

20 November 2017

In 2013 I travelled to the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). On my way I met a woman who worked in irunga national park as a conservationist. Her primary role was to protect the gorilla population in the...

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Jenny Jeger Prize 2017

18 November 2017

We are delighted to announce the winners of the Jenny Jeger prize for writing 2017

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Tackling social inequality

17 November 2017

We read with interest Jon Lawrence’s critique of Family & Kinship in East London - the oft-cited seminal ethnographic study of working class life in Bethnal Green authored by our founder Michael Young and Peter Willmott.

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Opinion

Chancellor must drop plans to reduce tax for higher earners

16 November 2017

Conservative plans for tax and spending are driving up inequality, writes Andrew Harrop

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Insight

11 steps to stem trade union decline

15 November 2017

Membership in the private sector is less than a third of what it was at its peak, falling from 45 per cent to 13 per cent of the commercial workforce between 1979 and 2016. The key drivers of this change...

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