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Read The Book
Before the welfare state
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The Greycoat Hospital
The Greycoat Hospital was once a workhouse. It has since been a hospital and a school. It has a very long welfare history. It has now been taken over by the state.
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The Greycoat Hospital
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Education and State
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Discriminating against mothers who want to stay at home and look after their children
There was some controversy yesterday over the British Government’s intention to make some change to its removal of child benefit from higher rate taxpayers. This measure was manifestly unfair because it meant the benefit would be paid to a couple … Continue reading
Posted by James Bartholomew
Indexed in Parenting
Interview in Sweden
Here is an interview I did earlier this year in Sweden. http://www.axess.se/tv/program.aspx?id=2666
Posted by James Bartholomew
Indexed in Education, European Union, General, Healthcare and the NHS, Parenting, Pensions, Politics, Unemployment, Welfare benefits
On TV tonight
The recording I did for Channel 4 is on TV tonight. The programme appears at 7.55. I await with trepidation to see what the editors have done. My children say that I look ‘scary’ in the picture on the 4thought … Continue reading
Posted by James Bartholomew
Indexed in Behaviour & Crime, Media, including BBC bias, Parenting, Welfare benefits
Esping-Andersen and his three worlds of welfare capitalism
One of the most influential writers on welfare states is Gosta Esping-Andersen. Back in 1989, he wrote a book called The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism in which he categorised welfare states into three kinds. When I first heard about … Continue reading
“Golden misses” – reasons why some women are not so keen on marriage
Why do people marry less? One reason, I have argued, is that for those who are poor enough to be influenced, the welfare state offers women who want children an alternative to a financially-supporting man. In Britain, at least, it … Continue reading
Aspects of the riots and what needs to be done
Some articles in today’s Sunday Telegraph reflect different aspects of the riots and their aftermath: The interview with David Cameron. He is talking tough on crime now but he is the man who appointed Kenneth Clarke to be in charge … Continue reading
Posted by James Bartholomew
Indexed in Behaviour & Crime, Blog, Parenting, Politics, Reform, Unemployment, Welfare benefits
The mob violence: an analysis that will not be made and a reflection on the difficulty of measuring incivility and alienation
The riots in London and elsewhere over the past few days suggest a profound level of underlying incivility and alienation among the young, especially, in Britain. It would b extremely interesting for there to be an analysis of those arrested … Continue reading
Once again, a murderer turns out to have come from a broken home
Anders Beivik, like Raol Moat, the killers of Jamie Bulger and, I would suggest, most others who have hit the headlines as killers, came from a broken home . I wonder if it is particularly significant that he was rejected … Continue reading
Sweden is not Marilyn Munroe
(This is the unedited version of an article which appeared recently in the Spectator) Sweden is iconic like Marilyn Munroe or Karl Marx. It is supposed to stand for something special: a kind of socialist paradise where socialism and a … Continue reading
Posted by James Bartholomew
Indexed in Education, Healthcare and the NHS, Parenting, Politics, Welfare benefits
Italy and Sweden – worlds apart
I have done two highly contrasting trips in the past few months. First Italy and then Sweden. In both cases, the trips were prompted by other things but I used them to research a new book I am writing about … Continue reading
Posted by James Bartholomew
Indexed in Education, General, Healthcare and the NHS, Housing, Parenting, Welfare benefits, Work on the new book