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The reforms a post-corona government needs to make

16 April 2020

5:25 PM

16 April 2020

5:25 PM

The government is reluctant to start talking about life after the lockdown for fear of diluting its social distancing message, but just as post-war planning started during world war two, long before the fighting was over, we too should start planning for the post-coronavirus world. The Beveridge report on our social insurance system came out in November 1942, when it was by no means certain we would win.

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