23 Nov 2022 - 12:01am

The workers were never ignorant Eighty years on, Beveridge's 'Giant Evils' remain

Terry Eagleton

03.11

How illiteracy silenced my father Only in death did he escape the drowning machine

Darran Anderson

13.09

Of course posh people get posh jobs Working-class Britain won't topple the privileged

James Kirkup

10.08

Teenagers need to have sex again A book about owls set the scene for my own awakening

Julie Burchill

13.04

Macron’s fake war on the elites The French President's cynical rebranding will not convince anyone

John Lichfield

09.02

Who created the self-made man? A generation of risk-takers owe their success to the welfare state

Selina Todd

05.10

The trouble with the diversity debate We're squabbling over symbols rather than focusing on the substance of inequality

David Johnston

23.09

Stop making poverty the butt of jokes The cliché that the upper and lower classes have so much in common is laughable

Gavanndra Hodge

11.09

What we meritocracy critics get wrong Selection by merit is not the problem — the overwhelming focus on academic intelligence is

David Goodhart

25.06

On your bike, Britain! Cycling liberated women in the 1890s, and is just the thing to free us from lockdown

Mary Kenny

03.10

The war on social mobility Meritocracy might not be working, but that doesn't mean we should junk the system.

James Kirkup

30.09

Social mobility won’t bring social justice The assumption that everyone is born with equal abilities makes it harder to help the less advantaged

Mary Harrington