Explore Challenges
- 16 May: Keeping pace with a digital revolution
- Global health in the 21st Century
- Adapting to an urban future
- Educating for tomorrow
- Digital technology in Africa
- Persistent poverty in Britain
- Can the UK ever be sustainable?
- Plastic pollution in the oceans
- Natural disasters: how can we improve?
- Not In My Back Yard
- Digital Divide in the UK?
- Importing goods, exporting drought?
- Britain’s ageing population
- Engineering our climate
- The future shape of Capitalism
- Migration: skills and the job market
- Razing the Rainforest
- London under water
- Concreting the countryside
- Future of low carbon energy.
- Africa in the 21st Century
Industrial Revolution, Warming, Denmark, population, Japan, technology, Big Issue, genetics, BBC, Natural disaster, Economic Growth, teachers, Migration, Save Bletchley Park, trade, keeping pace with a digital revolution, future, Kofi Annan, UK, CO2 Emissions
Persistent poverty in Britain : Focus
Tackling persistent poverty in Britain
Why are there so many people living in poverty in Britain? How can this problem be tackled?
Speaker biographies
Our panel including Frank Field MP, John Bird, Julia Unwin and Mark Easton
7th January, 2011- more »