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Index
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
The welfare state quiz
The welfare state – some of the major dates
Introduction to the new edition
Author’s preface: Growing up with the welfare state
Preface to the 2006 paperback edition
Contents
Chapter 1: From Stanley Matthews to Vinnie Jones
Chapter 2: Social security: Catherine’s four dead boys and Frank’s bingo blow-out
Chapter 3: The NHS: like a train crash every day
Chapter 4: Education: eleven years at school and still illiterate
Chapter 5: Housing: from ‘homes fit for heroes’ to Rachman and Damilola Taylor
Chapter 6: Parenting: Princess Diana and the habits of the apes
Chapter 7: Pensions: Octavia warned us
Chapter 8: Tax and growth: Harold Wilson versus John Who?
Chapter 9: The reckoning
Chapter 10: If the welfare state is so bad, why don’t we get rid of it?
Afterword: Why do people talk more about ‘poverty’ now that there is less of it?
Little stars of hope for education
The NHS: so did it ‘get better’?
Ten things wrong with the welfare state
Ten reasons why the welfare state has failed
Four reasons why the welfare state is unlikely ever to succeed
Personal reflections on writing The Welfare State We’re In
Acknowledgements
Select bibliography
Picture credits
Notes to the figures
Index
A, B, C
D, E, F
G, H, I
J, K, L
M, N, O
P, Q, R
S, T, U
V, W, X
Y, Z
Copyright
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