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This policy briefing by Kate Andersen, the author of 'Welfare That Works for Women?', is particularly relevant at the current time given that the UK government has recently further expanded welfare conditionality with the aim of increasing moves into paid work.…Read more
Sarrah Kassem, author of, Work and Alienation in the Platform Economy, calls on us to delve deep into the realities of the workers behind our screens keeping the platform economy going.…Read more
Jason Brown and John Middleton, contributors to the Global Agenda for Social Justice 2, add endangered languages to the list of threats posed by climate change.…Read more
Edward Hall, John Clayton and Catherine Donovan, editors of 'Landscapes of Hate', respond to the 26 percent rise in hate crimes in the UK, and look at how they are embedded in the fabric of our lives. …Read more
Chris Ogden, author of The Authoritarian Century, considers how the recent spy balloon incident further reveals the fragility and negative orientation of current relations between Beijing and Washington.…Read more
Dan McQuillan, the author of Resisting AI, suggests that ChatGPT may be seductive, but it’s a dangerous distraction from the socially useful production and commons-based solidarity that we really need, and we must resist it.…Read more
In this episode, Jess Miles speaks with Luke Billingham and Keir Irwin-Rogers, authors of 'Against Youth Violence', about a new way of making sense of youth violence by putting it in the context of social harm.…Read more
Safak Tartanoglu Bennett and Sian Moore consider the change in the backdrop to this new winter of discontent and highlight how inequality has increased, trade union composition has shifted and strikes are no longer simply about pay. …Read more
On the first day of the teachers' strikes, Richard Riddell, the author of Schooling in a Democracy, looks at how centralised government policy has increasingly separated schools from the communities they serve. …Read more
John Clarke discusses our multiple current crises and considers how the term permacrisis reminds us just how multifaceted and unstable society currently is.…Read more