As we rebuild from the wreckage, let's consider how the structures of the state have fatally limited what feels possible. Constitutional experiments in Latin America suggest a way to organise the state which can liberate society’s potential.
There is growing evidence that states’ responses to the COVID 19 pandemic are having discriminatory impacts. In response, an unprecedented coalition of global equality organisations has called for all policy responses to be subjected to equality impact assessment.
“As public health and societal debates play out in the coming months, I very much hope that we can hear more of the voices of those deemed ‘vulnerable’.”
The architect of social security said "adventure came not from the half starved, but from those who were well fed enough to feel ambition". But recent politicians have taken a different view. What now?
