Using research and advocacy to put fairness at the centre of policy-making in the UK
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We've released new polling with @taxwatch on attitudes to the private ownership of the buildings & equipment used to deliver public services.
We find six in ten people say buildings used by public services should generally be publicly owned.
🔗 fairnessfoundation.com/who-s…
📚 BOOK EVENT: Will Snell is in York on 4 Nov to discuss his new book 'The Fair Necessities', with @KarenRowlingson, Kit Colliver and @jed_meers.
📍 Priory Street Centre, 7pm
🎟️ Open to all: festivalofsocialscience.com/…
#FestivalofSocialScience
Join us this evening at the @BlavatnikSchool at 6pm to discuss Will Snell's new book 'The Fair Necessities' about how we build a fairer economy and society.
Ft. Professors @dannydorling and Jo Wolff and Emeritus Fellow Fran Bennett.
🔗Register here: bsg.ox.ac.uk/events/blavatni…
🔊Our Chief Executive Will Snell appeared on the @CompassOffice podcast 'It's Bloody Complicated' last week to discuss his new book 'The Fair Necessities: Why We Need a Fairer Britain and How to Make It Happen'.
🔗 Listen to the full episode here: open.spotify.com/episode/7c6…
Credit unions can help people save and build wealth, in an economy where one in six UK adults has no savings.
Yet while membership is 40% in NI and 64% in the RoI, in Britain it’s just 2%.
Our new report, Banking on local places, makes the case👇
fairnessfoundation.com/banki…
TONIGHT: Why we need a fairer Britain with @LSEInequalities
Our CEO Will Snell discusses his new book 'The Fair Necessities' with Professor @aaronsreeves and @wealtherty, chaired by Professor @Armish15
🕡 6:30pm | 📍LSE & online
🔗 Register: lse.ac.uk/international-ineq…
Fairness Foundation was proud to support @CostOfLivingAct's Day of Action at Parliament today.
Particularly glad to hear the inspiring contributions from those with lived experience, as momentum grows around calls for real change to be delivered at this year’s Budget.
A tiny group of people decides how billions of pounds of workers’ pension savings are invested, while the people the money actually belongs to have very little say.
We’ve published a new report setting out how workers could be given a stronger voice👇
🔗 fairnessfoundation.com/holdi…
Join our event this Wednesday at 6:30pm at
@LSEInequalities alongside @aaronsreeves, @wealtherty & @Armish15, to discuss Will Snell's new book 'The Fair Necessities'.
🔗 Register here: lse.ac.uk/international-ineq…
Join us at @BlavatnikSchool on 22 October at 6pm to discuss Will Snell's new book 'The Fair Necessities' about how we build a fairer economy and society.
Ft. Professors @dannydorling, Jo Wolff & Emeritus Fellow Fran Bennett.
🔗Register here: bsg.ox.ac.uk/events/blavatni…
In 'The Fair Necessities', Will Snell sets out how unfair inequality is undermining our society & economy.
Join us next Weds 14 October, 6:30pm at @LSEInequalities to discuss how, alongside @aaronsreeves, @wealtherty and @Armish15.
🔗Register here: lse.ac.uk/international-ineq…
Fairness Foundation retweeted
Important arguments in 'The Fair Necessities' on tackling inequality, including that solutions abound - fully agree! My experience has been that a lack of ideas is rarely the problem - it's how to build power to get good ideas accepted.
More thoughts:
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Today, we've published a new report with the Campaign for Compulsory Voting.
In it, we make the case that compulsory voting could help to address the political inequality caused by extreme economic inequality.
🔗 Read the full report here: fairnessfoundation.com/the-m…
💡This year at Labour Party Conference, it was a pleasure to bring together three panels which each explored the policy solutions needed for a fairer economy.
With thanks to @lisanandy, @liambyrnemp, @LeighInghamMP & @JoeMorrisMP for their contributions, and all our attendees!
Can a framework that disaggregates wealth inequality into three aspects help build consensus on the harms that it causes, and ultimately on what to do about it? New report out today: faircomment.co.uk/p/hidden-w…
Heading to Labour Conference this weekend?
Come along to our event on Monday: "Britain's Wealth Gap" with @jrf_uk, featuring @liambyrnemp, @williamnhutton & @wealtherty
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Last week, we launched Will Snell's new book "The Fair Necessities" in a packed room at @policyatkings.
In this week's Fair Comment, Will examines three engaging challenges to the book's argument raised at the launch event, and responds👇
🔗 faircomment.co.uk/p/getting-…
At Labour Conference, we're co-hosting "Good Growth in Towns" with @jrf_uk, ft. @lisanandy, @LeighInghamMP, @KatieSchmuecker & Will Jennings.
Too many of Britain's towns feel left behind. This panel explores how we can change that.
🔗 luma.com/d9ijpia4
At Labour Party Conference, we're delighted to be co-hosting "Britain's Wealth Gap" with @jrf_uk, featuring @liambyrnemp, @williamnhutton and @wealtherty.
The panel will ask what a fairer wealth distribution would look like and how we can get there.
🔗luma.com/yan7k94k
Fairness Foundation retweeted
Will Hutton addressing a packed room at Bush House, London, on Will Snell’s important new book, ‘The fair necessities: Why we need a fairer Britain’. Hutton absolutely correctly that Snell’s talk to open the event was powerful and moving.
But a question (from me): isn’t the greatest unfairness of all the way that future generations are about to inherit a devastated planet/future?
@fairnessfdn
