At the end of the film Terminator 2 Sarah Connor looks across the New Mexico desert and says ‘there is a storm coming’. That storm is here. The aftermath of…
24 Feb, 2017
Social Security
27 Jan, 2017
Black women, Gender Equality and Universal Basic Income
Feminist debates have been central to discussions on the benefits and pitfalls of a Universal Basic Income for women and what this would mean for gender equality. Much of this…
20 Jan, 2017
Coming off the fence on UBI?
I’ve always sat on the fence when it comes to universal basic income (UBI). There’s much that is attractive in an approach that, in its pure form, does away with…
13 Jan, 2017
Universal Basic Income and Women’s Liberation
From 1971 to 1978, the UK women’s liberation movement held ten national conferences at which it formally adopted a total of seven key demands. The fifth of these demands, added…
10 Jan, 2017
Building on Bauman’s legacy
Forgive me, this is as personal as it is political. I don’t know what to do. A world that was getting darker suddenly turned pitch black. Zygmunt Bauman is dead.…
12 Dec, 2016
To combat right-wing populism, we need to reclaim human rights.
Human rights are central to understanding – and arresting – the rise in right-wing populism. Farage, Trump, Le Pen and their fellow travellers gain strength from the poverty, inequality and…
03 Dec, 2016
All that suffering. For what?
I cannot have been alone in my reaction to last week's Autumn Budget announcements from Philip Hammond in which the government promises that underpinned the austerity agenda for the last six…
25 Aug, 2016
A feminist case for Basic Income: An interview with Kathi Weeks
A feminist case for Basic Income: An interview with Kathi Weeks Katie Cruz: Since you wrote The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries in 2011, the…
15 Aug, 2016
Should we tax mechanization?
One of the memorable features of growing up in a small country town was the Bank Manager. He, for it was invariably a man, held an esteemed position: authoritarian but…
12 Aug, 2016
Changing work
Mechanisation. Robots. The digital economy. The gig economy. The sharing economy. The world of work is changing but our creaky welfare system is still based on a 20th-century model of work, designed when soldiers…
20 Jun, 2016
What would society look like with universal basic income?
Laurie Penny writes for the New Statesman on what a Universal Basic Income might look like in the 21st century. It may seem blasphemous to neoliberals, but a universal basic…
23 May, 2016
Universal Basic Income: An idea whose time has come?
Howard Reed and Stewart Lansley discuss the growing demands for a UBI and how it could be introduced in the UK. You can read and download the full piece here or see below…