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What does the future hold for Britain, and how can we reclaim our prosperity? In his latest book, Great Britain? How We Get Our Future Back, economist and politician Torsten Bell offers his vision for revitalising the UK's economy and society.
A former Chief Executive of the Resolution Foundation and now Labour MP for Swansea West, Bell dissects the economic stagnation that has gripped Britain for over a decade, exploring how this prolonged period of low growth has impacted various segments of society – and what we can do about it.
At this event in our Fair Society series with the Policy Institute at King’s College London, we discussed Bell’s book and his ideas for how to raise living standards and create a more equal country.
Speakers:
Torsten Bell, Member of Parliament for Swansea West, former Director of the Resolution FoundationBobby Duffy, Director, the Policy Institute at King’s College London (chair)David Hope, Senior Lecturer in Political Economy, King’s College LondonGaby Hinsliff, Columnist at the GuardianHosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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On 15 October the Fairness Foundation published the Wealth Gap Risk Register, an online evidence resource on the impacts and risks of the wealth gap. The report is designed to address limited awareness among policymakers of the causal relationship between the wealth gap and these negative ‘spillover effects’, by communicating the evidence base as clearly and concisely as possible through a range of powerful and accessible data visualisations.
The report also looks at the evidence base for the policy solutions that will either reduce the wealth gap or mitigate its impacts on other areas, and at the evidence on public attitudes to both the problem and the solutions (including new polling and focus group research on public understanding of the impacts of wealth inequality).
During this webinar, the report’s analysis and recommendations were discussed and situated within the wider context of the debate about inequality, poverty and the government's priorities and choices by an expert panel. This event was run in association with the Policy Institute at King's College London as part of our 'Fair Society' series.
Speakers:
Liam Byrne, Labour MP for Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North and Chair of the Business & Trade Select CommitteeGraham Hobson, Founder of Photobox and member of the Patriotic MillionairesSonia Sodha, Chief Leader Writer at The ObserverJack Jeffrey, Researcher at the Fairness FoundationWill Snell, Chief Executive at the Fairness Foundation (chair)Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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What does declining prosperity mean for Britain’s next generation? In his latest book, author and professor Danny Dorling constructs seven “average” children from millions of statistics – each child symbolising the very middle of a parental income bracket, from the poorest to the wealthiest. Seven Childrenexplores the realities facing Britain's youth in the aftermath of the pandemic and the cost of living crisis.
Dorling's seven children were born in 2018, at a time when the UK faced its worst inequality since the Great Depression. As they turned five in 2023, their country had Europe's fastest-rising child poverty rates, and even the best-off of the seven is disadvantaged. The book provides insight into the lives of British children living between the extremes of wealth and poverty. It examines questions around parental income, the middle class, and the trends affecting the next generation.
At this event in our Fair Society series with the Policy Institute at King’s College London, Dorling discussed the key issues with our expert panel.
Speakers:
Danny Dorling, Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, University of Oxford, and author of Seven Children, Inequality and the 1% and All That Is SolidGeorgia Banjo, Britain Correspondent, The EconomistDame Rachel De Souza, Children’s Commissioner for EnglandWill Snell, Chief Executive, The Fairness Foundation (chair)Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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In his bestselling new book, Failed State, Sam Freedman outlines how it feels like nothing works in Britain anymore. It has become harder than ever to get a GP appointment. Many property crimes remain unsolved. Rivers are overrun with sewage. Wages are stagnant and the cost of housing is increasing. He asks why it feels like everything is going wrong, at the same time?
It's easy to blame dysfunctional politicians, but the reality is more complicated, he says. Politicians can make things better or worse, but all work within our state institutions. And Failed State argues ours are utterly broken.
At this event, Freedman – a leading policy expert and writer of the UK’s most popular politics Substack – offered his analysis of how our governance has fallen behind and what can be done to pave the way for a fairer and more prosperous Britain.
Speakers:
Sam Freedman, author of Failed State and writer of Comment is FreedPolly Curtis, Chief Executive, DemosEmma Norris, Deputy Director, Institute for GovernmentDuncan Robinson, Political Editor and Bagehot columnist, The EconomistBobby Duffy, Director, the Policy Institute at King’s College London (Chair)Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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One of the new Labour government’s five missions is the opportunity mission, which aims to “break down barriers to opportunity”. It's clear that Labour understands that breaking down barriers to opportunity requires action outside the school gates as well as within them, to tackle barriers to opportunity such as poverty and poor housing. But there’s a risk that, as they start to implement this mission, the messy reality of governing means that the difficult cross-government and cross-sectoral work to tackle these broader barriers to opportunity falls by the wayside, with limited political bandwidth and economic resources focused on the ‘easier’ policy levers that can be pulled within a single government department.
On 9 July the Fairness Foundation published a report, Deepening the Opportunity Mission, that aims to demonstrate why the new Labour government needs to tackle inequality before they can make real progress on the opportunity mission, what kinds of policy goals might be useful in orientating government policy towards tackling inequality as a result, and how to work across government to make progress on tackling inequalities as part of a wider shift to mission-driven government and working practices.
During this webinar, the report’s analysis and recommendations were discussed and situated within the wider context of the debate about mission-driven government by an expert panel.
Speakers:
Hamida Ali, Head of Policy and Programmes, Future Governance ForumEmma Norris, Deputy Director, Institute for GovernmentJames Plunkett, Chief Practices Officer, NestaMelanie Field, independent adviser (report co-author)Will Snell, Chief Executive, Fairness Foundation (chair and report co-author)Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The UK is a very unfair country. Inequality – whether socio-economic, regional, racial, gender, class-based, or disability-based – has got out of hand. This is morally wrong, but it's also bad for our economy, society and democracy. It's no surprise that 85% of people are concerned about inequality in Britain today. And the bad news is that most experts believe that inequality is going to get even worse over the next few years.
To address this, the next government has to take bold action to reduce economic inequality and build a fairer society. If we don’t make progress on this agenda over the next parliament, the 2029 election result might see the far-right making gains that we have never seen before in this country, as foretold in the results of the recent EU elections. The stakes for the next government, and for all of us, could not be higher.
On 30 June, as we look ahead to the general election, the Fairness Foundation published a report, 'The Canaries', that examines what the evidence tells us about how much more unfair Britain could become over the next five years, why this matters, and what we can do about it. It highlights the warnings made by experts from a range of sectors and disciplines about the trajectory that we are on, and what they think we need to do to get back onto a fairer, more prosperous and safer path.
During this webinar on 1 July, the report’s analysis and recommendations were discussed and situated within the wider context of the debate about inequality and poverty by an expert panel.
Speakers:
Helen Barnard, Director of Policy, Research and Impact, Trussell TrustShabna Begum, CEO, Runnymede TrustNick Harrison, Chief Executive, Sutton TrustAnita Sangha, Fairness FoundationWill Snell, Chief Executive, Fairness Foundation (chair)Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Left behind places can be found in prosperous countries – from South Yorkshire, integral to the industrial revolution and now England’s poorest county, to Barranquilla, once Colombia’s portal to the Caribbean and now struggling. More alarmingly, the poorest countries in the world are diverging further from the rest of humanity than they were at the start of this century. Why have these places fallen behind? And what can we do about it?
World-renowned development economist Paul Collier has spent his life working in neglected communities and lays the blame for widening inequality on stale economic orthodoxies that prioritise market forces to revive left-behind regions, and on what he sees as the hands-off and one-size-fits-all approach of centralised bureaucracies like the UK Treasury. As a result, he argues that the UK has become the most unequal and unfair society in the western world.
The Policy Institute and the Fairness Foundation hosted the launch of *Left Behind: A New Economics for Neglected Places,* Collier’s new book in which he sets out why some regions and countries are failing, and a new vision for how they can catch up. The event was part of our Fair Society series, in partnership with the Policy Institute at King’s College London.
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Paul Collier, Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of GovernmentDeborah Bullivant MBE, Deputy-Lieutenant Governor of South Yorkshire and founding CEO of Grimm and CompanySir Chris Husbands, Former Vice-Chancellor of Sheffield Hallam UniversityMichael Stevenson, Senior Consultant at OECD High Performing Systems for Tomorrow and Senior Adviser Education to DoncasterAlison Wolf CBE, Sir Roy Griffiths Professor of Public Sector Management at King's College London (Chair)Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Political philosopher Elizabeth Anderson argues that the 17th century concept of the Protestant work ethic has been perverted, and is now used to justify policies that promote the wealth and power of the richest in society, at workers’ expense. In her latest book, Hijacked: How neoliberalism turned the work ethic against the workers, Anderson says we should reclaim the original goals of the work ethic and better ensure that it promotes dignity for workers.
This webinar looked at how ideas of a work ethic informed debates among the political economists of the past, and how these ideas can help us in thinking about inequality today. The event was part of our Fair Society series, in partnership with the Policy Institute at King’s College London.
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Elizabeth Anderson, Professor of Public Philosophy; University of Michigan, and author of 'Hijacked'Sohrab Ahmari, Founder and editor, Compact magazine, and 'American Affairs' columnist, the New StatesmanBethan Staton, Deputy Editor, Work and Careers, Financial TimesStuart White, Nicholas Drake Tutorial Fellow in Politics, University of OxfordWill Snell, Chief Executive, the Fairness Foundation (Chair)Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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In his new book, This Time No Mistakes: How to Remake Britain, political economist and Observer columnist Will Hutton analyses how the left and right have gone wrong over the course of the last century. He believes the nation’s continuing inability to invest in itself is at the heart of our problems, which have their roots in a fixation on free markets and a minimal state.
To ward off the wave of nihilist populism sweeping the world, we need an alternative economic and political philosophy, Hutton says. He argues that two great traditions, ethical socialism and progressive liberalism, can be brought together to offer a different way forward and help shape a better Britain. Through the reforming Liberal government of 1906-14 and, later, the 1945 Labour government that was influenced by Keynes and Beveridge, history has shown great things can be achieved when the two progressive strands fuse, he says. Now it’s time to do it again.
The Policy Institute and the Fairness Foundation co-hosted an event in our Fair Society series to mark the publication of This Time No Mistakes.
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Will Hutton, Observer columnist, President of the Academy of Social Sciences and author of This Time No MistakesProfessor Bobby Duffy, Director of the Policy Institute at King’s College London (chair)Baroness Helena Kennedy KC, Barrister and broadcaster, was due to take part but had to pull out at the last minute in order to participate in the debate in the House of Lords on the Rwanda billHosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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We all take notice when the poor become even poorer – when we witness more rough sleepers and longer food bank queues. However, when the rich amass greater wealth, it often goes unnoticed in public, and for most of us, our daily lives remain ostensibly unchanged. In her book Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth, philosopher and economist Ingrid Robeyns sheds light on the alarming extent of our wealth problem, which has quietly escalated over the past 50 years.
From moral and political perspectives to economic, social, environmental, and psychological dimensions, she argues that extreme wealth is not only unjustifiable but is also detrimental to society as a whole, and proposes a radical solution - placing a hard limit on the wealth that any one person can accumulate. At this event, the Policy Institute and the Fairness Foundation hosted a discussion on 'limitarianism', Robeyns’ concept that challenges our current system by calling for a strict cap on wealth accumulation.
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Professor Ingrid Robeyns, Chair in Ethics of Institutions, Utrecht University and author of Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme WealthLuke Hildyard, Director, High Pay Centre and author of Enough: Why It's Time to Abolish the Super-RichGraham Hobson, technologist and member of Patriotic Millionaires UKWill Snell, Chief Executive, Fairness Foundation (chair)Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The super-rich have never had it so good – but millions can't afford a home, an education or a pension, argues former Treasury minister Liam Byrne MP in his new book, The Inequality of Wealth: Why it Matters and How to Fix it.
He says that unless we change course soon, the future will be even worse. Much worse. But things don't have to be like this. In the book, Byrne explains why wealth inequality has grown so fast in recent years; warns how it threatens our society, economy and politics; shows where economics has got it wrong – and proposes five practical ways to rebuild an old ideal: the wealth-owning democracy.
This event was part of our Fair Society series, in partnership with the Policy Institute at King’s College London.
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The Rt Hon Liam Byrne MP, Member of Parliament for Birmingham Hodge Hill and author of The Inequality of WealthAnoosh Chakelian, Britain Editor, New StatesmanCarys Roberts, Executive Director, Institute for Public Policy ResearchProfessor Bobby Duffy, Director of the Policy Institute at King’s College London (chair)Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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What factors drive political turmoil and societal breakdown? How do elites sustain their dominance, and why do ruling classes occasionally lose their hold on power? Peter Turchin, an expert in researching the origins of political instability, uncovers a recurring trend in his book End Times. When the scales of power heavily favour the ruling elite, it leads to a surge in income inequality, enriching the wealthy and impoverishing the less privileged. As more individuals aspire to join the elite, dissatisfaction with the established order intensifies, often resulting in calamity.
The Policy Institute and the Fairness Foundation hosted a fascinating conversation about political upheaval, inequality, and the historical lessons we can glean. Are we truly living in "End Times," or can history provide a glimmer of optimism for breaking free from past cycles? Should we be more or less optimistic in the light of technological changes such as the advent of AI? And if the US is a plutocracy, to what extent is that also true of the UK?
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Gerry Mitchell, Social policy researcher, writer, community activist and co-author of Uncomfortably Off: Why the Top 10% of Earners Should Care about InequalityWill Snell, Chief Executive, the Fairness Foundation (Chair)Mary Harrington, author and contributing editor at UnHerdPaul Summerville, Adjunct Professor, Gustavson School of Business at the University of Victoria and co-author of Reclaiming Populism: How Economic Fairness Can Win Back Disenchanted VotersPeter Turchin, Complexity Scientist, one of the founders of Cliodynamics and author of The Times thought book of the year, End Times: Elites, counter-elites and the path of political disintegrationHosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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In their influential and award-winning 2009 book The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone, Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson argue that societies with the biggest gaps between the rich and the rest are bad for everyone, including those who are most well off. They contend that everything from life expectancy, mental illness and obesity to violence and illiteracy is affected not so much by the wealth of a society as by its level of inequality, and propose solutions to move towards a future that is both fairer and happier.
As part of our Fair Society series with the Policy Institute, we revisited The Spirit Level and its lasting impact on how we think about inequality.
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Kate Pickett OBE, Professor of Epidemiology, University of York, and co-author of The Spirit LevelRichard Wilkinson, Professor Emeritus of Social Epidemiology, University of Nottingham, and co-author of The Spirit LevelDavid Aaronovitch, journalist, presenter and authorLucinda Platt, Professor of Social Policy and Sociology, London School of EconomicsPaul Drechsler CBE, Chair, International Chamber of Commerce UK and BusinessLDN, former President of the Confederation of British IndustryBobby Duffy, Director, the Policy Institute at King's College London (Chair)Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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How do politicians from the Conservative and Labour parties think about what a fair society looks like? Are their differences intractable, or are there areas with as-yet unrealised potential for cross-party consensus? If we can find common ground between the fairness principles and priorities of those on the left and the right, what might this look like in terms of concrete policy solutions?
In his new book, Free and Equal: What Would a Fair Society Look Like?, Daniel Chandler builds on the philosophy of John Rawls to argue for a society that protects free speech and transcends culture wars, limits the influence of money on politics, and builds a more just economy that operates within the limits of the planet.
Daniel is joined by Anneliese Dodds MP, John Penrose MP and Ryan Shorthouse for a discussion chaired by Suzanne Hall from the Policy Institute at King's College London.
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In his book, Value(s): Building a Better World for All, former Governor of the Bank of England Mark Carney argues that fundamental problems – such as growing inequality in income and opportunity, mistrust of experts, and the existential threat of climate change – all stem from a common crisis in values.
Drawing on the turmoil of the past decade, he says that “market economies” have evolved into “market societies”, where price determines the value of everything.
Radical, foundational change is required if we are to build an economy and society based not on market values but on human values, he says.
In this online event as part of our Fair Society series, hosted with the Policy Institute at King’s College London, Carney discussed his vision for a fairer and more human society with Nick Macpherson, former Permanent Secretary to the Treasury and Policy Institute Visiting Professor with the Strand Group at King’s College London.
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In May 2023, the Fairness Foundation published National Wealth Surplus, a report on public attitudes to wealth, based on polling carried out by Opinium.
The report launch webinar took place on 23 May 2023 and was chaired by Polly Toynbee (the Guardian), with contributions from Dr Lucy Barnes (University College London), Gary Stevenson (inequality economist and former city trader) and Will Snell (Fairness Foundation).
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The Fairness Index was launched on 19 October 2022 with a webinar chaired by Will Hutton, and with presentations by Will Snell (Fairness Foundation), Ann Phoenix (University College London), Torsten Bell (Resolution Foundation) and Richard Wilkinson (University of Nottingham). Click the link in the description to see the slides and recording of the launch webinar.
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What does society owe each of us? And what do we owe in return?
Our answer to these inescapable questions – known as the social contract – shapes our politics, economic systems and every stage of life, from raising children and going to school to finding work and growing old. Yet today, many believe that this contract is not working for them.
In What We Owe Each Other: A New Social Contract, leading economist and Director of the LSE, Minouche Shafik, examines societies across the world and demonstrates that the urgent challenges of technology, demography and climate require a major shift in priorities – a social contract fit for the 21st century.
Our panel discussed these issues and more at this event in our Fair Society series with the Policy Institute at King’s College London.
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Minouche Shafik, Director of the London School of EconomicsDiane Coyle, Co-Director of the Bennett Institute for Public Policy, University of CambridgeDaniel Susskind, Fellow in Economics, University of Oxford, and Visiting Professor at the Policy InstituteRyan Shorthouse, Director, Bright Blue, and Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Policy InstituteBobby Duffy, Director of the Policy Institute, King’s College London (chair)Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Travelling up or down the social ladder has been a British obsession for over a century, but can political leaders continue to claim that social mobility is a real and just reward for hard work?
In her book Snakes and Ladders: The Great British Social Mobility Myth, Professor Selina Todd draws on hundreds of personal stories to reveal the hidden history of how people have really experienced social mobility, as well as how unsung heroes – among them, feminists and trade unionists – were able to unleash the hidden talents of thousands and create more room at the top.
In this event in our Fair Society series with the Policy Institute at King's College London, Selina and our panel discussed class and social mobility in modern Britain and how we can create greater opportunities for all.
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Selina Todd, Professor of Modern History at St. Hilda’s College, University of Oxford, and author of Snakes and Ladders: The Great British Social Mobility MythLee Elliot Major, Professor of Social Mobility, University of ExeterHalima Begum, Chief Executive and Director, Runnymede TrustAdam Swift, Professor of Political Theory, University College LondonBobby Duffy, Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Policy Institute, King’s College London (chair)Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Dramatic differences in health are not a simple matter of rich and poor – poverty alone doesn't drive ill health, but inequality does. Indeed, suicide, heart disease, lung disease, obesity, and diabetes are all linked to social disadvantage.
In his book The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World, Professor Sir Michael Marmot argues that in every country, people at relative social disadvantage suffer health disadvantage and shorter lives – a key reason why we need to address societal imbalances in power, money and resources.
Since the book was published in 2015, Marmot's work has gone on to reveal how the health gap has grown between wealthy and deprived areas of the UK, and how inequalities in social and economic conditions before the pandemic contributed to the high and unequal death toll from Covid-19.
In this event, Sir Michael and the other panellists discussed why it is more urgent than ever that we tackle inequalities in order to improve health, why more progress has not been made in the last decade, and how we can rectify this failure in the era of levelling up.
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Professor Sir Michael Marmot, Director of the UCL Institute of Health Equity, former President of the World Medical Association, and author of The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal WorldJo Bibby, Director of Health at the Health FoundationChris Thomas, Senior Research Fellow (Health) at the Institute for Public Policy Research, and author of The Five Health Frontiers: A New Radical BlueprintJabeer Butt, Chief Executive of the Race Equality FoundationProfessor Richard Trembath, Senior Vice President (Health & Life Sciences), King's College London, and Executive Director of King’s Health PartnersWill Snell, Chief Executive of the Fairness Foundation (chair)Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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