WELFARE STATE
March 2010
The Shadow Universities and Skills Secretary David Willetts discusses the legacy of the post-war generation with the senior Labour MP Frank Field and Daniel Johnson, the Editor of Standpoint
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November 2009
‘The idea that diligent citizens have been putting away money for their retirement with National Insurance contributions is a myth’
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October 2009
The inventor of Red Toryism — said to have the ear of David Cameron — is totally confused about the welfare state and the markets
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February 2009
‘The post-1989 temptation in Prague has been two-fold. The first has been to legislate the totalitarian past out of existence, the second has been to copy the liberal West blindly at a lag of 20 years’
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