Opinion Articles
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Britain’s hundred-year housing crisis: a century of uneven spending
Peter Shapely shows how housing policy initiatives since 1919 have been sunk by the same problem of investment disappearing in lean periods, and suggests housing should be a basic constant spending priority alongside health.
Read MoreThe 2017 General Election in history
As the dust settles on the outcome of the 2017 General Election, Martin Farr looks at other key moments of electoral uncertainty and uneasy coalition.
Read MoreAfter Grenfell, what can we learn from the housing policies of the 1970s?
David Ellis suggests the 30-year-old consensus on what makes for politically acceptable housing policy may be breaking down in the way of the Grenfell disaster – opening the door to policies last employed in the 1970s.
Read MoreLessons from the Grenfell Tower disaster: the historic failures of the state in fire safety
The role of the state in fire safety is not a settled matter – Shane Ewen shows how improved fire safety has tended to follow a preventable disaster in the past, so the lessons for policy makers, following a recent period of deregulation, should be clear.
Read MoreThe Blitz can show us how to respond to a tragedy
Henry Irving shows that government was willing to learn lessons in 1940 about its own unprepared response to destruction and homelessness – can the government of today learn the same lessons when responding to tragedy?
Read MoreThe Grenfell fire and the destruction of the British council estate
Sam Wetherell shows how the original unified vision of council estate architects was picked apart by housing legislation in the 1980s and 1990s, resulting in the patchwork of managing bodies we see today.
Read MorePrince Harry and the history of mental health stigma policy
Chris Millard traces the history of policy designed to tackle stigma, contextualising both “celebrity” action and the mooted scrapping of the Mental Health Act 1983.
Read MoreWhat does British imperial economic history tell us about the future of UK-EU trading relations?
David Clayton lays out the options for Britain’s post-Brexit trading relations, and assesses the preferred option in the light of imperial economic history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Read MoreBrexit and the case for a naval policy renaissance
Duncan Redford argues that Brexit is unlikely to lead to a resurgence of public support for increased naval power – the history of similar attempts to engage the public on this issue is not encouraging for the pro-naval lobby.
Read MoreWomen Against State Pension Inequality: a distraction from deeper problems
The campaign group Women Against State Pension Inequality argue that discrimination against a generation of women has taken place. Hugh Pemberton suggests this may be a distraction from the deeper and broader problems with the pension system.
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