William Temple Foundation

Social policy is in crisis and utilitarian ethics forms a key and too often unquestioned axis of this crisis argues William Temple Foundation Associate Research Fellow Tina Hearn. That social […]

Communications Officer, Dr Tim Middleton, reflects on the New Materialisms and the work of the William Temple Foundation. What is it that really matters? Since joining the William Temple Foundation […]

John Reader reviews this recent book by political economist Will Davies and wonders whether we would benefit from a New Enlightenment. When I encountered an early review of this book […]

Richard Douglas, a PhD student at Goldsmiths, University of London, reflects on the living relevance of Hugh Montefiore’s environmental thought. In 1969 the Vicar of Great St Mary’s, Cambridge, travelled […]

William Temple Scholar Gill Reeve highlights the challenges for social care ahead of the government’s Green Paper on the issue, raising specific concerns about people in our communities living with […]

Jenny Leigh is in the third year of her PhD at Durham University. Previously, she worked in Westminster—as a parliamentary researcher, and in social policy. She is currently involved in […]

Val Barron proposes that we cannot rest content with the spiralling financial burden that afflicts those who have lost loved ones. Funeral poverty is getting out of control. On Friday […]

Greg Smith wonders how the Christmas message of peace really works out in practice. I am writing this blog in the week following the centenary celebrations of the 1918 Armistice, […]

Chris Baker, Director of Research for the William Temple Foundation, argues that Brexit has already happened psychologically. It is time, he says, to follow William Temple’s lead and work on […]

Jenny Leigh is in the third year of her PhD at Durham University. Previously, she worked in Westminster—as a parliamentary researcher, and in social policy. She is currently involved in […]