James Bloodworth discusses Alan Milburn’s damning report on social mobility in Britain on the Left foot forward blog, arguing that “the drive to improve social mobility and promote ‘equality of opportunity’ is always liable to stall if inequality isn’t tackled”.

On SPERI Comment, Scott Lavery point to a ‘recovery through regressive redistribution‘ in Britain. Although there has recently been encouraging growth statistics, “the spectre of the UK’s uneven development – the unequal distribution of its wealth and the highly financialised nature of its economy – will continue to haunt the stewards of the British state tomorrow”.

On the Not Quite Noahpinion blog, Noah Smith compares Nobel prize in economics recipients Eugene Fama and Robert Shiller to Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein, seeing no contradiction in awarding them both the prize.

Fifty years after Harold Macmillan retired, Mark Stuart compares ‘SuperMac‘ with David Cameron on the Ballots and Bullets blog.

40 years on, the consequences of the 1973 oil shock are still shaping Britain’s relations with the Middle East, writes David Wearing on the Our Kingdom blog.