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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Economy
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- Nov 07, 2020
A flourishing higher education sector is critical to a nation's economy and culture.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
University should foster imagination and creativity, enriching society in the process.
- Hardwired
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- Nov 07, 2020
A desire for social connection is fundamentally hardwired into our psychology, and so being deprived of it has devastating mental and physical consequences. Yet we live in a society which has become ever more fragmented and atomised.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jobs have become more precarious and staff turnover has increased while union membership has plummeted, weakening workplace solidarity.
- Each Week
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nonbelievers may welcome the collapse in British religiosity, but the decline in church attendance has meant that the chance to chat each week with other people has vanished.
- Loneliness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Loneliness is devastating our mental and physical health and, at its worst, is killing us. Yet thankfully, unlike some conditions, we can easily cure it. We just need the will.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thousands do benefit from love, support and comfort in their final chapter: I watched my dad slip away without pain as Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen tracks played in a warm Marie Curie hospice, surrounded by doting nurses and his family.
- Confronting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Britain's end-of-life and palliative care services are a national travesty. That a public debate on this crisis is so sorely lacking has much to do with our fear of confronting dying and death.
- Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
As inspirationally tireless as hospice fundraisers are, these are services that desperately need sustainable central funding. This means addressing the social care crisis too, which has inevitable knock-on effects on palliative and end-of-life services.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should all expect to be able to die with comfort, dignity and love. Our society does not lack the wealth to realise this aspiration, but the willpower.
- Attempted
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- Nov 07, 2020
The market fundamentalist ideology that dominates much of the west has attempted to indoctrinate us with a simple myth: that we all rise or fall according to our individual efforts alone; that billionaires amass vast amounts of wealth because they are entrepreneurial, plucky, go-getting geniuses.
- Mission
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- Nov 07, 2020
The left's mission isn't simply to grant every citizen the basic means of survival, but comfort and prosperity, too, through collective means. Yet the existence of billionaires is irreconcilable with this emancipatory project.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Philanthropists decide how to spend their money based on their own personal whims, rather than what is best for the social good.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The existence of billionaires should sound an alarm: they are the most extreme manifestation of wealth generated by the efforts of millions of people being funnelled into the pockets of a tiny few.
- Participation
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the 00s, it was often claimed that political apathy had replaced political participation. Membership of political parties and electoral turnout were both said to be in irreversible decline.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020