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The Great British Workforce Mystery
Economy
By James Kirkup
The Great British Workforce Mystery
Nearly 400,000 people aged 50 and over have, in the blink of an eye, disappeared from the British workforce in the wake of the pandemic. James Kirkup, director of the Social Market Foundation, asks where they’ve gone – and how we can get them back.
Fraud may be our most common crime but policing has failed to catch up
Home affairs
By James Kirkup
Fraud may be our most common crime but policing has failed to catch up
Voters always worry about crime, and politicians always want to offer them reassurance. That usually means talking about police numbers, and often about “bobbies on the beat”. But such conversations fail to take account of the fact the nature of crime has changed.