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...
UK Foodbank Use: Time for a Fresh Perspective
The UK is a country of inequalities. Central London is the richest region in Western Europe, yet nine of the ten poorest regions in...
Kilmer & Kind – Two U.S. Representatives in Conversation at Barnett House
“There was no Five Guys in Oxford back in my day.” – DSPI alumni Representative Derek Kilmer Graduate students in Oxford’s Department of...
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...
No “Jamaica” for Germany – The Takeaways
The collapse on Sunday night of exploratory talks to form a so-called “Jamaica Coalition” in Germany came as a surprise for many observers.
