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see films clips of authors introducing their chapters in PEF’s book , The Return of the State
see film clips of PEF Council members explaining the purpose of PEF’s new book, The Return of the State
“After decades of assault by state-shrinking ideologues, a collision of crises has revealed how only the power of good government can save us. Covid, climate catastrophe and Brexit crashed in on a public realm stripped bare by a decade of extreme austerity. Here all the best writers and thinkers on the good society show recovery is possible, with a radical rethink of all the old errors. Read this, and feel hope that things can change. ”
Polly Toynbee
Sue Konzelmann writes on Boris Johnson’s Economic Recovery Plan. Focusing almost exclusively on the usual sectors – property, construction and finance – it’s likely to make an already unbalanced economy even more lopsided.
Of the nineteen UK governments since the Second World War, only two have torn up the rule book and tried to build a better future, instead of simply recycling the
The author of The New Enclosure writes on the case to end the privatisation of public land for PEF’s 100 Policies to End Austerity series.
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