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I've written about insecurity among the young & how it's changing the way they see the world. "We're drowning in insecurity," says a new grad. “I sometimes have this feeling

Shame on me, given my job, but only since the pandemic have I really started to understand how threadbare the UK's safety net has become. Take statutory sick pay. The

To let unemployment surge under the cover of allowing the economy to adjust naturally to the "new normal" would be intellectually dishonest and economically dangerous. We won't know what jobs

1/3 One jaw-dropping sub-plot of the Boohoo saga: how did so much ethical investment money end up in the company? ASI, for e.g., ran a fund specifically to invest in

Lots of ordinary jobs have suddenly become dangerous - even life-threatening. Care workers are the new coal miners. Yet our ability to enforce safety in the workplace has been crushed