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Mar 20, 2025 | 
transformingsociety.co.uk | Ruth Patrick |Aaron Reeves
This article was originally published in The Conversation. Keir Starmer’s government is expected to announce a host of cuts to sickness and disability support in the coming days. The UK’s ageing and increasingly unwell population has led to what has been described as “unsustainable” and “indefensible” spending on benefits.
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Mar 17, 2025 | 
phys.org | Ruth Patrick |Aaron Reeves
Keir Starmer's government is expected to announce a host of cuts to sickness and disability support in the coming days. The UK's aging and increasingly unwell population has led to what has been described as "unsustainable" and "indefensible" spending on benefits.
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Mar 14, 2025 | 
theconversation.com | Ruth Patrick |Aaron Reeves
Keir Starmer’s government is expected to announce a host of cuts to sickness and disability support in the coming days. The UK’s ageing and increasingly unwell population has led to what has been described as “unsustainable” and “indefensible” spending on benefits.
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Feb 13, 2025 | 
arxiv.org | Charles Rahal |Aaron Reeves
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
lrb.co.uk | Aaron Reeves |Sam Friedman |Jonathan Parry
When we think of the fashions of the 1890s, several objects come to mind: the tennis racquet, the golfing cap, the Daily Mail, a full-length Singer Sargent portrait, The Diary of a Nobody. In 1896, A. & C. Black purchased the rights to a dull annual almanac called Who’s Who and relaunched it the following year in a format designed to appeal to contemporary taste.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
literaryreview.co.uk | Aaron Reeves |Sam Friedman
Our ruling class has lost its sprezzatura. To Baldassare Castiglione, who coined the word in 1528, this signified ‘the effortless resolution of all difficulties’. At Eton only a few decades ago, the watchword was ‘effortless superiority’. These days, however, it might as well be ‘effortful superiority’. More than ever, the British elite want to convince the proles that they are tireless workaholics. Equally, they want us to believe that they aren’t elite at all.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
commonreader.co.uk | Aaron Reeves |Henry Oliver |sociologists Sam Friedman
Paid subscriptions are currently paused while Substack helps me sort something out at the back end. Hopefully they will be back on soon! There is a poetry session this weekend, 11th August 19.00 UK time.. I enjoyed doing this interview with very much. He asked so many good questions. Largely about literature with a section on late bloomers for the first fifteen minutes or so. Our elites are lying to us.
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Jul 12, 2024 | 
taipeitimes.com | Aaron Reeves |Sam Friedman
By Aaron Reeves and Sam Friedman The UK will have a new Labour government whose class composition would be radically different from previous ones. About 46 percent of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s likely Cabinet members were raised by parents with “working class” occupations, Project Syndicate’s analysis of Labour’s shadow Cabinet showed.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
almendron.com | Aaron Reeves |Sam Friedman
El Reino Unido va a tener un nuevo gobierno laborista, y su composición de clase será muy diferente a la de los anteriores. Según nuestro análisis del «gabinete en las sombras» laborista, un 46% de los probables ministros de Keir Starmer procede de hogares de clase trabajadora; cifra muy superior al promedio, en términos de la población trabajadora general, y en marcado contraste con el 7% de miembros del mismo origen presentes en el gabinete conservador saliente.
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
confidencial.digital | Aaron Reeves
El Reino Unido va a tener un nuevo Gobierno laborista, y su composición de clase será muy diferente a la de los anteriores. Según nuestro análisis del “gabinete en las sombras” laborista, un 46% de los probables ministros de Keir Starmer procede de hogares de clase trabajadora; cifra muy superior al promedio, en términos de la población trabajadora general, y en marcado contraste con el 7% de miembros del mismo origen presentes en el gabinete conservador saliente.
