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In our first year (starting in January 2022), we published Fair Comment directly on our website, and you can read these posts in our archive section below. From January 2023 we are exclusively publishing Fair Comment on Substack (our posts from 2022 also appear there).

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Child poverty is an affront to fairness

June 5, 2023

Shocking new statistics published today by the End Child Poverty Coalition put paid to the notion that Britain is a meritocracy

A house, a home

May 30, 2023

Professor Jo Richardson answers your questions about social housing, homelessness and the meaning of home

Espousing housing

May 22, 2023

Professor Jo Richardson is ready to answer your questions about social housing, homelessness and the meaning of home. And a reminder of our webinar tomorrow on public attitudes to wealth.

National Wealth Surplus

May 18, 2023

The results of our wealth polling are in. 8 in 10 Brits are concerned that the wealthy don’t contribute their fair share of taxes. People are most positive about entrepreneurs, followed by landlords.

It's wealth inequality, stupid

May 10, 2023

A fair society will never be within reach unless and until we take action to share wealth more equitably across society

Why aren't people more exercised about health inequalities?

May 2, 2023

'Social determinants' like housing and wealth have a huge impact on health outcomes, and poor health in turn leads to worse economic outcomes. Why is the British public not more concerned about this?

Ask me anything with Danny Dorling (the answers)

April 24, 2023

The well-known geographer and author answers your questions

Ask me anything with Danny Dorling

April 17, 2023

The well-known geographer and author is ready to answer your questions about class and social justice in the UK (or anything else, within reason)

Rewriting the Rawls of the game

April 10, 2023

A new book, 'Free and Equal', reassesses how we can use the principles set out by the philosopher John Rawls to build a fairer society. It's a book whose time has come.

Thoughts on childcare reform and societal collapse

March 20, 2023

Last week's widening of early years provision was welcome, but is the wider system too stretched to accommodate it? And what might the implications be of a broader unravelling of our social fabric?

Eight in 10 Britons think early years workers’ pay is too low

March 13, 2023

Our new polling shows that people believe that paying early years workers more fairly would benefit everyone, but also underestimate how expensive UK childcare is compared to other OECD countries

Guaranteeing the fair essentials

March 6, 2023

A new campaign is calling on the government to peg benefits to a minimum acceptable standard of living. The fairness arguments for this are hard to disagree with.

Are Brits more progressive than we think?

February 27, 2023

A recent survey has shown that Britons have some of the most positive attitudes to immigration in the world. Do we underestimate the progressiveness of the public?

Inherited inequality clogs up society's arteries

February 20, 2023

Unearned wealth is becoming more important relative to earned income in determining life chances and outcomes. We need to level the playing field before we find ourselves back in the Edwardian era.

Building a fairness argument is child's play

February 13, 2023

Revisiting the Fairness Index to look at a live issue shows that it remains a useful tool to explore and explain the nature, causes and consequences of key inequalities

Fragmentation nation

February 6, 2023

Inequality and meritocratic myths feed off each other, undermining concern about inequality and support for action to tackle it

Our new polling on attitudes to fairness and the strikes

February 1, 2023

Two in three people in Britain agree with the key fairness arguments in favour of the strikes

The tipping points for a fair society

January 23, 2023

Inequalities feed off each other, creating vicious cycles. But the opposite is also true. Progress is nonlinear. Can we set up a virtuous cycle of fairness tipping points?

A forum for civilised irrelevance

January 16, 2023

This week's annual Davos jamboree feels ever more disconnected from the real world. It's a shame, because corporate types are often more alive to the dangers of inequality than many political leaders.

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