The introduction of devolution in Scotland and Wales, and its reintroduction in Northern Ireland, has wrought a welcome transformation in the governance of the...
Is meritocracy an effective device for legitimising socioeconomic inequality?
My father Michael Young’s objection to meritocracy was rooted in his belief in...
As an expert on game theory and the like, Dominic Cummings will be well aware of the concept of moral hazard. This holds that, if individuals are protected aga...
The illusion of meritocracy at school inflicts damage on children and young people – particularly those from working class backgrounds. More than that, meritoc...
A new world order awaits us on the other side of the pandemic. As we wait out this storm of uncertainty and possibility in our small pockets of isolation, the ...
If a renewed respect for expertise is one result of post-Covid 19 politics then the Labour party, under Keir Starmer, could be in a better position to capitali...
Political scrutiny of the UK’s management of COVID-19 has recently revolvedaround an ambitious target the government set for itself: the goal of carrying out 1...
Sixty years after its publication, Michael Young’s The Rise of the Meritocracy remains one of Britain’s most influential, yet widely misunderstood, p...
Since 2017 the Labour party has proposed mandatory sectoral collective bargaining (SCB) as a comprehensive strategy to rebuild the trade union voice across the...
In the aftermath of Labour’s general election defeat, a new conventional wisdom has rapidly taken hold: Labour, increasingly middle class and out of touch, has...
The presence of improvement
districts across in cities across the world has been increasing since the
1970’s. But what are they, why are they created, and whic...
From the moment David Cameron made his pledge to hold a referendum on the UK’s membership of the European Union back in January 2013, Britain has experienced s...
