A Duty of Care: Britain Before and After Covid

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Now we come to the crux of the matter: could the surge of state intervention since 2020, the shift in political and public sentiment, and the national desire to finally mend the societal cracks torn open by Covid be directed into a productive consensus as ambitious as Beveridge’s?

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But there is another alternative: a broad equality of condition that enables those who do not achieve great wealth or prestigious positions to live lives of decency and dignity. For more infomation please review our use of cookies in our Cookie Policy and then Accept and Close this bar. Also, the need to reform the justice system following cuts to legal aid and funding of the courts, creating vast backlogs, worsened by Covid restrictions. He looks back to beginnings when, during wartime, Sir William Beveridge identified the 'five giants' on the road to recovery: want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness and laid the foundations for the modern welfare state. Beveridge was deeply disappointed by Labour’s response to his proposals and because the government did not consult him as he hoped, as Jose Harris points out in her excellent biography of Beveridge which, strangely, Hennessy does not reference.Also hotly anticipated is Empireland (Viking, January), a meticulous look at the effects of imperialism on British life and history from Sathnam Sanghera, best known for his memoir The Boy with the Topknot. Premium Digital includes access to our premier business column, Lex, as well as 15 curated newsletters covering key business themes with original, in-depth reporting.

A Duty of Care: Britain Before and After Covid Peter Hennessy, A Duty of Care: Britain Before and After Covid

He is the author of the classic 'post-war trilogy', Never Again: Britain 1945-1951 (winner of the NCR and Duff Cooper Prizes), Having it So Good: Britain in the Fifties (winner of the Orwell Prize) and Winds of Change: Britain in the Early Sixties, the bestselling The Prime Minister and The Secret State: Preparing For The Worst 1945-2010. In January, Chatto publishes Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Today, in which Eddie S Glaude Jr, chair of the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University, tries to fathom how the author of Go Tell It On the Mountain managed, against the odds, to keep faith in the idea of a more just future. It covers a very summary account of British health and social policy - taking the Beveridge Report as its starting and reference points - and concludes with a cri de coeur about developing a new Beveridge framework following the Covid 19 pandemic.Given that the Attlee government so admired by Hennessy presided over Britain’s withdrawal from and partition of the subcontinent, it is also odd that this book does not contain a single mention of India. I’d scarcely finished the first page and the World at One producer rang and asked me to talk about the historic significance of what I thought might be coming. I notice, though, that he has stopped talking about ‘uncle Harold’ – perhaps he got a frosty note from the late Duke of Devonshire, who really was Harold Macmillan’s nephew. But, due to the costs and miscalculation of post-war living costs, the benefits were below the subsistence level Beveridge had originally proposed.