{"id":92423,"date":"2026-05-20T07:22:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T06:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=92423"},"modified":"2026-05-20T07:22:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T06:22:53","slug":"reform-and-the-politics-of-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/05\/20\/reform-and-the-politics-of-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Reform and the Politics of Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The third, and final, part of my series on reform and how to tackle it is out today on Substack. <a href=\"https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/richardjmurphy\/p\/reform-and-the-politics-of-care?r=3862y&amp;utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&amp;utm_medium=web\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">You can read it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The argument that I present is quite straightforward. This is that if those who support Reform have reasonable grievances with the way society has developed over the last 45 years, we cannot simply wish those away or abuse those who hold them, because there is substance to their complaints. Far too many people have been left behind, living precarious lives as a result of policies promoted over that period. They have a reasonable right to be angry.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, we cannot look for a neoliberal solution, because neoliberalism deliberately created these problems. The consequence is that we must look for another philosophy to defeat Reform's far-right approach, and that, I suggest, is to be found in the politics of care.<\/p>\n<p>A video version of this series is likely to come out soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The third, and final, part of my series on reform and how to tackle it is out today on Substack. You can read it here.<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2026\/05\/20\/reform-and-the-politics-of-care\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[204,35,106,235,223,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economic-justice","category-economics","category-politics","category-politics-for-people","category-politics-of-care","category-reform"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92424,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92423\/revisions\/92424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}