Housing in the UK today is in a ‘critical situation’. According to a UN report, homes in Britain are no longer affordable, or adequate for large sections of the population. Homelessness in Oxford is at the most serious and troubling end of the problem, but the shortage of homes also affects different people in less severe […]
“I believe the test of a good and strong society is how we look after the most vulnerable” David Cameron, 2010, during the final leader’s debate. By any reasonable test, disabled people would make up a significant proportion of a society’s most vulnerable. However, today, the disabled are being put under unprecedented pressure. Given that […]
What can we take away from the CCP Third Plenum? Following a historic meeting by the Chinese governing elite at the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) Third Plenum of the 18th Central Committee, there seems to be no consensus or definitive theory on the direction that the Chinese economy and state is going to take. The […]
