Howard Reed

Jul 9, 2024 | tribunemag.co.uk | Elliott Johnson |Howard Reed |Matthew Johnson

‘You name it, Labour will tax it,’ tweeted Rishi Sunak, just two days before leading the Conservatives to a monumental trouncing. It was a frequent attack line from his party. The problem, however, isn’t that Labour’s tax and spend plans are too extreme — it’s that they don’t go anywhere near far enough.

Apr 24, 2024 | theconversation.com | Elliott Johnson |Howard Reed |Matthew Johnson

Prime minister Rishi Sunak has announced a crackdown on sickness and disability benefits in order to end a “sicknote culture” and “over-medicalising the everyday challenges and worries of life”, in part because he claims that “good work” can actually improve mental and physical health. He instead wants to focus on “what people can do with the right support in place, rather than what they can’t do”.

Apr 24, 2024 | ca.finance.yahoo.com | Matthew Johnson |Elliott Johnson |Howard Reed

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Mar 7, 2024 | tribunemag.co.uk | Joe Guinan |Howard Reed

‘An era can be said to end,’ playwright Arthur Miller, ‘when its basic illusions are exhausted.’ Such exhaustion is palpable in Britain today. Everybody knows that the Thatcherite economic model of the past forty years is failing, with infrastructure crumbling, wages stagnating and public services at breaking point.

Oct 9, 2023 | compassonline.org.uk | Elliott Johnson |Howard Reed |Neal Lawson |Harry Gold

The moment is replete with possibility, both wonderful and awful. The old is dying but refuses to die. The new, in the form of a profound sense of interconnectedness and autonomy is being born but is fragile, dispersed and underfunded.The gap between decline and fear on the one hand and change and hope on the other has never been greater. Amidst this confusion and hope, the search for a new paradigm begins.Two possible futures await: authoritarian or democratic?