In the context of renewed criticism of the 2015 UK Modern Slavery Act, Rose Broad and Nick Turnbull discuss human trafficking and modern slavery policy development. They find continuities in policy that, despite being repackaged as ‘slavery’ have resulted in unintended consequences and implementation difficulties leading to recently highlighted failures. In the last 12 months, […]
Budget Hack: It’s a Budget about nothing: Philip Hammond morphs into Seinfeld – Nick Turnbull
A new guest author shares their thoughts as part of Policy@Manchester’s Budget Hack event: In his sitcom, Jerry Seinfeld famously pitched the idea for his programme to NBC as ‘a show about nothing’. ‘What happens in the show?’ asks the President of the network. ‘Nothing’ is the reply, to much consternation. There would be jokes, […]