Commentary & Podcasts
Commentary
The office is dead. Long live the office.
The Prime Minister wants us to start returning to the office. But the mass homeworking experiment has been a success for many firms. Offices will need to evolve as a result.
| Published: | 17 July 2020 |
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| Author: | Scott Corfe |
Commentary
Return to spender: the Chancellor’s costly stamp duty gamble
Rishi Sunak's stamp duty holiday is risky and expensive. Here are three housing measures he could have announced instead.
| Published: | 10 July 2020 |
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| Author(s): | Scott Corfe, Amy Norman |
Commentary
Institutional racial discrimination in schools
In Britain, racial discrimination starts early. Black children are more likely than white peers to be excluded from school and face in-class discrimination.
| Published: | 26 June 2020 |
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| Author(s): | Amy Norman, Jake Shepherd |
Commentary
The Hostile Environment: The Empire Strikes Back
The Court of Appeal has ruled on a very important legal challenge to a core element of the UK Government's ‘hostile environment’ approach to immigration control, the ‘right to rent’ rules that require private landlords to check the immigration status of potential tenants before letting to them.
| Published: | 14 May 2020 |
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Commentary
Homes, health, and COVID-19: how poor housing adds to the hardship of the coronavirus crisis
Written by: Amy Clair, ESRC Research Centre for Micro-Social Change, Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex
| Published: | 02 April 2020 |
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| Author: | Amy Clair |
Commentary
For more than 1 million Britons, access to food is not a recent challenge, but a familiar concern
The past few days have been astonishing, for many reasons. The coronavirus, Covid 19, has shoved the economy into what is almost certainly a deep recession, and cherished civil liberties...
| Published: | 26 March 2020 |
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