At the end of the year, us bloggers share some of our most-read posts of the year. This is a good opportunity to find stuff you may have missed first time around. Here’s an interesting one by Jules Birch on the Beveridge Report which I found via his list.
This Saturday sees the 70th anniversary of the publication of the iconic report credited with the creation of the welfare state.
Sir William Beveridge published his report within weeks of the victory at El Alamein that seemed to mark a turning point in the Second World War. His ideas, and the language in which he expressed them, seemed to many people to symbolise what they were fighting for: a better world after the war and no return to the miseries of the 1930s.
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