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The Latest Breaking News from William Beveridge

Simon Callow leads wild political fantasy The Man With The Plan as film hits the road across the UK

A new film reimagining William Beveridge’s battle against Britain’s “Five Giants” is touring the UK — complete with dancing magpies, media sheep and Miriam Margolyes as the voice of Squalor.

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Casey’s review of adult social care offers hope

Letters: Readers respond to Polly Toynbee’s article praising Louise Casey’s speech on social care funding

The Guardian - UK

Louise Casey: England’s social care system faces ‘moment of reckoning’

Head of government-commissioned review says adult social care is held together by ‘sticking plasters and glue’

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‘You’d be ashamed to bring someone here’: The struggling billionaire-owned high street that shows Reform’s road to No 10

Newton Aycliffe was meant to be a model town for a fairer postwar Britain. But unaffordable rents on a high street amounting to 0.12% of its property tycoon owner’s holdings have made it a symbol of decline – and a warning for Labour

The Guardian - UK

Ministers face fresh challenge to welfare reforms in Wednesday votes

Labour MP for York Central Rachael Maskell accused the Government of being ‘stubborn’ in its welfare reform efforts.

Evening Standard

Britain has a social care crisis. Here’s how Labour plans to fix it

Our National Care Service will meet the urgent needs of our generation – just as the NHS did when it was created in 1948, says health secretary Wes Streeting

The Guardian - UK

‘Nobody can fix the country’: voters in former Blair town sceptical of change

Let down by broken Tory promises of levelling up, some in Newton Aycliffe and across north-east turned to Reform

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The Federal Union: how a group of 1940s economists dreamt of a European Union for the working classes

On the eve of the Second World War, three Oxbridge graduates joined forces in London and wrote a pamphlet calling for the union of Britain with other democracies to avert the coming conflict. They sent the short pamphlet, titled “Federal Union”, to more than 500 opinion-makers in Britain. The warm…

The Conversation

Ignorance still stalks the land

Brief letters: Beveridge’s giants | Carers | Cash-strapped Tories | Early Christmas | Bird’s birthday

The Guardian - UK

The shame of a million children living in destitution in Britain

Letters: Janet Lewis and Trish Cockayne on a report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation that revealed how children are experiencing extreme poverty in Britain

The Guardian - UK

Across the Globe, Government Health Care Systems Are Failing Us

By restricting private health care choices, the NHS and other beloved single-payer systems were doomed from the start.

Reason

If this chaos does not make us rethink our idea of the good society, whatever will?

Eighty years after the Beveridge report, time to ask again what are the essentials that allow us to thrive

The Guardian - UK

Here’s the kind of prime minister we need to heal our divided country

Letters: Diana Basterfield lays out what an ideal leader would do to bring the people of Britain together. Plus a letter by Helen Swann

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