Ethical and political dilemmas abound these days. This month: working class?
Politicians of both Left and Right continue to march behind the banners of meritocracy and equality of opportunity as if this were all that is needed to achieve a fair society. But rewarding people for their ‘merit’ may be creating a new class system based on arrogant, insensitive winners and angry, desperate losers, writes Peter Adamson.
Kam Sandhu questions why the British working class is inevitably conceived of as white, despite ethnic minority communities being at the sharpest end of inequality.
This is an exciting idea whose time has come, writes Paul Donovan.
Forget Scream, The Exorcist and Jaws: The nightmare on Downing Street is coming to a cinema near you.
Article title | From magazine | Publication date |
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Agony Uncle | Land rights | November, 2022 |
Only Planet | The future of work | November, 2021 |
The merit trap | Making peace in a world at war | September, 2018 |
Working class in Britain? You must be white | Black Lives Matter | March, 2018 |
The Universal Basic Income is an idea the left must embrace | Love in the time of Ebola | June, 2016 |
Horror flick: Mrs T at the multiplex | Haiti two years on | January, 2012 |
Class war | Climate change denial | May, 2011 |