Did the welfare state work?

Eighty years after the Beveridge Report, his five 'Giant Evils' remain

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Was the future brighter 50 years ago than it is now? Credit: Shirley Baker

Idleness is the tool of the devil

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The birth of the biostate

BY Thomas Fazi / 6 mins

The betrayal of Britain’s seaside towns

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Britain’s squalid housing crisis

BY Mary Harrington / 6 mins

The workers were never ignorant

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