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Prodding Britain with a fairness stick. Click to read Fair Comment, by Will Snell, a Substack publication with thousands of readers.

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A tourism levy is welcome, but a fairer Yorkshire needs real fiscal power

Jason Bunting

December 8, 2025
Why Keir Starmer should appoint a Secretary of State for Fairness

Will Snell

July 6, 2024
Spiralling inequality is a ticking timebomb for the next government

Julian Richer

June 30, 2024
Even Conservative voters want higher taxes on the wealthy
Even Conservative voters want higher taxes on the wealthy

Will Snell

May 18, 2023
A national consensus
A national consensus

Will Snell

May 3, 2023
Without proper investment, the government will drive the early years sector into the ground
Without proper investment, the government will drive the early years sector into the ground

Will Snell

March 20, 2023
Talking about fairness can help us to build support for systemic reform
Talking about fairness can help us to build support for systemic reform

Will Snell

October 18, 2022
Defining and communicating fairness can build support for change
Defining and communicating fairness can build support for change

Will Snell

September 26, 2022
Review of the parole system
Review of the parole system

Peter Dawson, Director, Prison Reform Trust

March 31, 2022
Social care funding
Social care funding

Jenny Morris, disability policy expert

March 30, 2022
Levelling up has to be government’s first priority
Levelling up has to be government’s first priority

Will Snell & John Penrose

January 27, 2022
Tories care more about fairness than you might think
Tories care more about fairness than you might think

Will Hutton

December 9, 2021
Launching the Fairness Foundation
Launching the Fairness Foundation

Will Snell

November 29, 2021

Recent events

Posts

Cursed by inequality
Cursed by inequality

The history and future of societal collapse

Dr Luke Kemp, Danny Sriskandarajah, Dr Jeni Mitchell, Will Snell

October 20, 2025
The Greatest of all Plagues
The Greatest of all Plagues

David Lay Williams, Karen Rowlingson, Luke Kemp, Will Snell

May 13, 2025
Mission to the Future
Mission to the Future

Derek Walker, Cat Tully, Anita Sangha, Will Snell

May 7, 2025
The return of Trump
The return of Trump

Is inequality behind the rise of the populist president?

Liam Byrne MP, Claire Ainsley, Ben Ansell, Peter Hyman, Bobby Duffy

February 4, 2025
Great Britain?
Great Britain?

How we get our future back

Torsten Bell, Zoe Billingham, David Hope, Gaby Hinsliff, Bobby Duffy

November 4, 2024
Wealth Gap Risk Register
Wealth Gap Risk Register

Liam Byrne MP, Graham Hobson, Sonia Sodha, Jack Jeffrey, Will Snell

October 15, 2024
Seven Children
Seven Children

Danny Dorling, Georgia Banjo, Dame Rachel de Souza, Will Snell

September 17, 2024
Failed State
Failed State

Sam Freedman, Polly Curtis, Emma Norris, Duncan Robinson, Bobby Duffy

September 11, 2024
Deepening the Opportunity Mission
Deepening the Opportunity Mission

Melanie Field, Hamida Ali, Emma Norris, James Plunkett, Will Snell

July 9, 2024
The Canaries
The Canaries

Helen Barnard, Shabna Begum, Nick Harrison, Anita Sangha, Will Snell

July 1, 2024
Left Behind
Left Behind

Paul Collier, Deborah Bullivant, Chris Husbands, Michael Stevenson, Alison Wolf

June 24, 2024
How workers can reclaim the work ethic
How workers can reclaim the work ethic

Elizabeth Anderson, Sohrab Ahmari, Bethan Staton, Stuart White, Will Snell

April 25, 2024
This Time No Mistakes
This Time No Mistakes

How to Remake Britain

Will Hutton, Bobby Duffy

April 22, 2024
Limitarianism
Limitarianism

The case against extreme wealth

Ingrid Robeyns, Luke Hildyard, Graham Hobson, Will Snell

March 28, 2024
The Inequality of Wealth
The Inequality of Wealth

Why it Matters and How to Fix it

Liam Byrne MP, Anoosh Chakelian, Carys Roberts, Bobby Duffy

January 24, 2024
End Times
End Times

Counter-Elites and the Path of Political Disintegration

Peter Turchin, Mary Harrington, Paul Summerville, Gerry Mitchell, Will Snell

January 10, 2024
The Spirit Level revisited
The Spirit Level revisited

Kate Pickett, Richard Wilkinson, Lucinda Platt, Paul Drechsler, David Aaronovitch, Bobby Duffy

November 28, 2023
How to create a fair society
How to create a fair society

Can the left and right find common ground?

Daniel Chandler, Anneliese Dodds MP, John Penrose MP, Ryan Shorthouse, Suzanne Hall

October 26, 2023
Towards the Manifestos (Labour)
Towards the Manifestos (Labour)

What’s Labour’s agenda for fixing poverty and tackling inequalities?

Liam Byrne MP, Bobby Duffy, Polly Toynbee, Emma Revie, Will Snell

October 10, 2023
Value(s)
Value(s)

Building a Better World for All

Mark Carney & Nick Macpherson

October 5, 2023
Towards the Manifestos (Conservatives)
Towards the Manifestos (Conservatives)

What’s the Conservative agenda for fixing poverty and tackling inequalities?

John Penrose MP, Bobby Duffy, Julia Davies, Sophia Worringer, Will Snell

October 3, 2023
Towards the Manifestos
Towards the Manifestos

What’s the agenda for fixing poverty and tackling inequalities?

Liam Byrne MP, John Penrose MP, Bobby Duffy

July 6, 2023
National Wealth Surplus webinar
National Wealth Surplus webinar

Polly Toynbee, Lucy Barnes, Gary Stevenson, Will Snell

May 29, 2023
Fairness Index launch webinar
Fairness Index launch webinar

Will Hutton, Ann Phoenix, Torsten Bell, Richard Wilkinson, Will Snell

October 19, 2022
What We Owe Each Other
What We Owe Each Other

A New Social Contract

Baroness Minouche Shafik, Diane Coyle, Daniel Susskind, Ryan Shorthouse, Bobby Duffy

March 31, 2022
Snakes and Ladders
Snakes and Ladders

The Great British Social Mobility Myth

Selina Todd, Lee Elliot Major, Halima Begum, Adam Swift, Bobby Duffy

February 23, 2022
The Health Gap
The Health Gap

The Challenge of an Unequal World

Sir Michael Marmot, Jo Bibby, Chris Thomas, Jabeer Butt, Richard Trembath, Will Snell

January 20, 2022
The Tyranny of Merit
The Tyranny of Merit

What's Become of the Common Good?

Michael Sandel, Jo Littler, Adrian Wooldridge, Maria Alvarez, Bobby Duffy

November 24, 2021

From our partners

Sense of Fairness

These articles are republished with permission from Paul Lee, author of The Sense of Fairness.

Posts

A fully equal society: The Dispossessed
A fully equal society: The Dispossessed
March 19, 2023
Optimum inequality?
Optimum inequality?
March 5, 2023
Fairness is a choice II
Fairness is a choice II
February 26, 2023
Unfairness in carbon emissions
Unfairness in carbon emissions
January 22, 2023
The Gini in the executive pay bottle
The Gini in the executive pay bottle
December 4, 2022
Political fairness: a failure
Political fairness: a failure
November 27, 2022
An index of fairness
An index of fairness
October 23, 2022
Taxes to drive fair growth
Taxes to drive fair growth
October 16, 2022
Fair growth
Fair growth
September 25, 2022
Hopes for fair pensions
Hopes for fair pensions
August 21, 2022
The Rule of Law is fairness; Dobbs isn’t
The Rule of Law is fairness; Dobbs isn’t
July 3, 2022
Tax shouldn’t be a choice
Tax shouldn’t be a choice
May 29, 2022
The politics of low pay disclosures
The politics of low pay disclosures
May 24, 2022
Inflation’s two separate worlds (at least)
Inflation’s two separate worlds (at least)
May 8, 2022
The social footprint, and Maundy Thursday’s gifts
The social footprint, and Maundy Thursday’s gifts
April 14, 2022
Unfair trials: justice in the dock
Unfair trials: justice in the dock
February 27, 2022
Fair Play, the play – and the mistreatment of Caster Semenya
Fair Play, the play – and the mistreatment of Caster Semenya
January 25, 2022
Unfairness fosters conspiracy thinking
Unfairness fosters conspiracy thinking
January 11, 2022
Mother Nature’s recipes
Mother Nature’s recipes
December 29, 2021
Fairer futures
Fairer futures
December 16, 2021
Squid Game ‘fairness’
Squid Game ‘fairness’
October 22, 2021
Playing fair: the oddly inequitable world of sport
Playing fair: the oddly inequitable world of sport
August 25, 2021
Unfair food: the hunger trap
Unfair food: the hunger trap
August 1, 2021
Some thoughts on Rethink: build back fairer
Some thoughts on Rethink: build back fairer
January 12, 2021
Fairness – the human lens for addressing our current challenges
Fairness – the human lens for addressing our current challenges
November 21, 2020
Meritocracy’s unfair
Meritocracy’s unfair
January 30, 2020
Fairness is a choice
Fairness is a choice
June 7, 2019
Why fairness matters
Why fairness matters
June 5, 2019
Ultimatums and dictatorship: fairness shines through
Ultimatums and dictatorship: fairness shines through
October 31, 2018

To Be Fair

These articles are published with permission from Ben Fenton, author of To Be Fair.

Posts

A response to the ‘mini budget’
A response to the ‘mini budget’
September 26, 2022
Cataclysmic events
Cataclysmic events
September 12, 2022
Fairness and the Wars of the Roses
Fairness and the Wars of the Roses
August 30, 2022
Fair Play
Fair Play
August 8, 2022

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