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Eliza Filby

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£100K isn’t a big salary – and we need to talk about it

Meet Henry – a high earner not rich yet (Image created by Chat GPT using the text of this article as a prompt) He lives in a grotty flat, shops in...

02.07.2025 20

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Why Donald Trump’s ‘bucks for babies’ plan won’t work

WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 14: U.S. President Donald Trump and Æ A-Xii, the son of White House Senior Advisor, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, walks...

30.04.2025 7

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Don’t ask if Gary Stevenson’s story is true, ask why it’s popular

Gary Stevenson is young, angry and everywhere – but the veracity of his anti-capitalist rhetoric is less important than why it’s finding such an...

04.04.2025 9

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Why clubs – not schools – are key to solving the youth crisis

A group of boys practising their instruments at the CLYP youth club, 19th October 1978. (Photo by Chris Moorhouse/Evening Standard/Hulton...

27.02.2025 3

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Zuckerberg’s transition from geek to jock heralds the dawn of the alpha age

ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA – FEBRUARY 17: Alexander Volkanovski of Australia prepares to face Ilia Topuria in their featherweight title fight as Mark...

29.01.2025 4

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The class divide: Why social mobility is the missing piece in DEI

Any DEI framework that’s focused on ethnicity but silent on the messy realities of social mobility risks letting down the very people it’s trying...

20.12.2024 30

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Could a chatbot groom your child?

Shutterstock Generation Alpha are already growing up in a very different digital landscape to their predecessors and their lives will be...

26.11.2024 10

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Why millennial women are efficient – but not very productive – mothers

Millennial women have reached child-bearing age in a corporate culture that encourages them to have fewer babies, closer together and later in...

31.10.2024 4

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Inheritocracy: We need to talk about the Bank of Mum and Dad

Inheritance, tax and social care are interlinked, and it is time we talked about it, writes generational expert Eliza Filby In the 1980s,...

27.09.2024 3

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