Providing “Insite”: Overdose-Prevention and Supervised-Injection Sites
Amidst record-high and ever-increasing drug-related deaths, public health officials in North America are finding themselves at the centre...
Response to statement by UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, 16.11.18
On the day (16 November) that the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights delivered his final statement following his...
Why universal credit is failing
Another budget, another bung for the Tories’ flagship Welfare reform: Universal Credit (UC). Eight years on, six years behind schedule...
Low Fertility in Korea: Situation Analysis and Policy Implications
Though still one of the youngest countries in OECD, Korea has experienced a rapid demographic transition to a ‘hyper-ageing society’. One...
A Case Against Termination of Birthright Citizenship in the U.S.
The United States is currently facing a rising wave of anti-immigrant sentiment under the growing Conservative surge within the federal...
The End of EMA: Evidence-Based and Economically Necessary or Simply Political?
“We act on the basis of evidence”, declared the Minister for Further Education John Haynes when justifying the government’s decision to...
Diversity, Populism and Threats to Social Cohesion
Threats to social cohesion posed by globalisation, immigration and economic inequality have been the source of much public discussion in...
The USS Strike in Context: The Marketisation of Education
The ongoing USS strike highlights the consequences of the marketisation of education. Neoliberalism has seeped into all layers of the...
Forward Together? Exclusionary immigration policy and the UK's social care sector
The UK’s restrictive immigration policy, which simplistically focuses on the economic worth of “skilled” vs. “unskilled” migrants, does...
A 'kinder' Britain? New survey data reveals shifting attitudes towards benefit claimants
The latest round of the British Social Attitudes Survey (BSAS), recently published by NatCen, has revealed that the proportion of people...
