The Wealth Divide

  • The Poisoned Well: How Institutions, Politics, and Poverty Fuel UK Extremism

    The Poisoned Well: How Institutions, Politics, and Poverty Fuel UK Extremism

    Britain is ailing. A creeping malaise, a poison, has seeped into the very foundations of our society, making the air thick with prejudice and division. We see it in the casual bigotry, the open hostility, the sickening chants outside hotels. This isn’t some phantom menace; it’s a tangible, corrosive force, and its architects are not

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  • How Neoliberalism’s Promises Became Britain’s Predicament

    How Neoliberalism’s Promises Became Britain’s Predicament

    Introduction Forty-six years ago, a grocer’s daughter walked through the door of Number 10 Downing Street carrying a handbag and a revolution. What Margaret Thatcher unleashed though perhaps ‘unleashed’ grants her too much agency in forces already gathering was nothing less than the wholesale reconstruction of British society along lines sketched out in Parisian salons

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