The 75th anniversary of the publication of the Beveridge report, which laid the foundations for the welfare state, has just passed. On its first release, it was met with the kind of acclaim rarely given to policy documents, but how does it stand up to the challenges of 2018? Are the ‘five giants’ still relevant? Welfare expert Nicholas Timmins sits down with Alison McGovern, Richard Angell and Conor Pope to discuss.

Further reading:

*Nicholas Timmins writes on the Beveridge anniversary for Progress 

*Read all of the essays about society’s ‘giant evils’ from the December issue of Progress

*Buy Nicholas Timmins updated version of The Five Giants: A Biography of the Welfare State

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