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What can Keir Starmer’s Labour learn from New Labour? Part Two
In the concluding episode of this two-part series, Steven King and Glen O’Hara discuss what can Keir Starmer learn New Labour.
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What can Keir Starmer’s Labour learn from New Labour? Part One
Steven King and Glen O’Hara discuss what lessons Keir Starmer might learn from the last time Labour was in government.
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Roundtable: Britain’s Sicknote Culture
In this episode, first recorded in September 2024, Steven King and Cat Gower are joined by historians Dr Geoff Monks and Dr Carol Beardmore to discuss Britain’s ‘Sicknote Culture’. Is it merely the media’s latest fixation or is it symptomatic of something bigger?…
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Steven King discusses Fraudulent Lives: Imagining Welfare Cheats from the Poor Law to the Present
In this episode recorded in September 2024 Steven King and Cat Gower discuss King’s latest book, Fraudulent Lives: Imagining Welfare Cheats from the Poor Law to the Present (Montreal, 2024) and how his research into Britain’s past welfare systems has shaped his thoughts on directions…
Lessons From the Past for Policy Futures