One in Four Britons Now Claim to Be Disabled | James Bartholomew | IEA Interview

Podcast: IEA Podcast · Institute of Economic Affairs

Opublikowano: 2026-08-18

In this Institute of Economic Affairs podcast, IEA Director General Lord Hannan interviews James Bartholomew, author and leading expert on the UK welfare state, and director of the Museum of Communist Terror. The conversation covers the scale of Britain’s welfare crisis, competing reform proposals, the surge in mental health and disability claims, the minimum wage, school choice, and the case for teaching the history of totalitarianism. James traces the rise and fall of welfare reform since Iain Duncan Smith’s changes in the 2010s, and argues the system has drifted back out of control since. He sets...