Category: politics
Can we afford for Britain not to lead?
Britain, partly on account of its preeminent financial center in the City, may be the only advanced country positioned to move to a new socio-economic model. Any country proposing to make an even moderately radical […]
Free Social Care
LIFE will integrate social care services and the NHS to provide a nationwide service that ensures that everyone will have access to basic care services at all stages of their life. Care homes will still […]
Guaranteed Universal Basic Services
LIFE will guarantee that every citizen and resident in the UK has free access to basic public services, including old age care. Universal Basic Services (WellFair) include the NHS, education, transport, housing, food, communications, as […]
New local governments get direct control of budgets & migration
LIFE will ensure that any constituency, local area, or region that organises itself to for a new local government will receive direct control of their allocated budgets for WellFair, and the right to set their […]
Income Taxes only used for NHS & universal basic services
LIFE will ensure that all money raised from Income Taxes, National Insurance, Inheritance Tax, and other personal taxes are only spent on public services. Public services include the NHS, education, transport, housing, food, communications, as […]
The Tory’s Awful Honeymoon
As our social fabric wears out we are still waiting to see the full effects.
Discover LIFE
In the never ending quest to make the principles and ideas behind LIFE accessible to a wider audience we have produced an new iBook called “Discover LIFE”. Understanding who we are requires that we can […]
Helicopter money !?
Martin Wolf provides the most succinct description yet of the current economic malaise: Helicopter drops might not be far away. As described, the situation is the result of a two decade march to remove safety […]
Citizen Income: a dead end
The analysis that we need to increase social safety is correct. The conclusion that the way to do that is by distributing cash is erroneous.
Floundering on the Rocks of Policy
Any solution set that is not almost single-mindedly focussed on the provision of social safety and the encouragement of variety and specialisation is not worthy of the challenges before us.
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