
A Fair Future? How Equality Will Define Europe’s Next Chapter
Inequality fuels crisis — for people, planet, democracy and the next generation. It’s time to act.
Inequality fuels crisis — for people, planet, democracy and the next generation. It’s time to act.
Financial insecurity destroys lives. Slashing disability benefits isn’t reform—it’s cruelty disguised as cost-saving.
Rising inequality drives a global surge in cosmetic procedures.
The splurge of Christmas consumerism, especially in Britain, Kate Pickett writes, is partly driven by status anxiety.
The cost-of-living crisis, Kate Pickett writes, follows a familiar path of hugely unequal burdens.
Kate Pickett explains how to turn the vicious circle of inequality and social mistrust into a virtuous one.
Nominally egalitarian education systems, Kate Pickett writes, can in reality reproduce deep social inequalities.
Kate Pickett ponders how social scientists can bring structural inequalities to light when media focus on individual lives.
Young working-class people may have an aversion to being categorised on the social ladder. But that doesn’t make the ladder go away.
‘We don’t want to decapitate the tall poppies,’ said Boris Johnson in July. Yet for Kate Pickett his ‘levelling up’ ambitions will necessitate flattening the whole social gradient.
Kate Pickett argues the pandemic has not only massively affected public health but compounded the unhealthy effects of years of job insecurity.
Kate Pickett widens the panorama from the all-consuming coverage in Britain of the death of Prince Philip to ask why human lives and labours are so differentially valued.
Kate Pickett contends in a new Social Europe column that inequalities go together—and so their opponents shouldn’t get drawn into rivalry.
The pandemic has reinforced the case for egalitarianism to define the ethos of the welfare state.
The first research papers showing that health was worse and violence more common in societies with large income differences were published in the 1970s. Since