Aveek Bhattacharya
Aveek Bhattacharya is Chief Economist at the Social Market Foundation, a cross-party think tank. He has a PhD in Social Policy from the London School of Economics and is co-editor of the forthcoming book Political Philosophy in a Pandemic: Routes to a More Just Future.
Why is Further Education still neglected?
The public expects more Government action on vocational options, says the Chief Economist at the Social Market Foundation
The strange death of the Office for Place
The demise of the Office for Place is a missed opportunity for housing
Justin Welby should resign
If sin means anything, how can the Church of England hierarchy be maintained?
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look
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Your regular Critic round-up of the hottest shows and films.
Fleeing Sally Rooney’s god
Why have critics been ignoring one of the novelist’s most important themes?
David Lammy’s Caucasus catastrophe
The Foreign Secretary’s blunder has exposed the hollowness of “progressive realism”
Excluding Imran Khan is cowardly and wrong
Oxford University has made a serious mistake
Sausage to fortune
Vague promises might haunt Starmer more than an embarrassing gaffe
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay