The Five Giants: A Biography of the Welfare State

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Nicholas Timmins Harper Collins £25, pp 606 ISBN 0002553880 It is fashionable to be pessimistic about the welfare state. From the left comes the argument that the policies of successive Conservative governments have, over the past 15 years, betrayed the postwar vision that gave birth to the welfare state. From the right comes the argument that the welfare state aggravates many of the problems that it is supposed to solve. And indeed Beveridge's five giants--Want, Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness--seem to have shown a remarkable capacity for survival. Fifty years …

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