Israel has a strong economy, enviable healthcare system and liberal social policy.

Of course, every social policy can be ambiguous in a mixed economy.

These findings identify targets for social policy initiatives to minimize health disparities.

As with many areas in social policy, high-quality evaluations remain too few.

Building and delivering big social policy in the south, is proving difficult.

Housing policy is at the difficult intersection of economic and social policy.

Few social policy issues have been as enduringly divisive as affirmative action.

A big advocate of advances in healthcare, travel, politics and social policy.

Rightly, we as a nation take care of them through social policy.

Tim Newburn is professor of social policy and criminology at the LSE

Economic and social policy must be based, as far as possible, on evidence.

These include inclusive economy, social policy, institutional capacity and conflict resolution.

Investment in housing isn't just good social policy: it's sound fiscal policy too.

In some cases this may be appropriate for economic or social policy reasons.

But truth is often an early casualty in social policy debates.

Lady Faithfull was a frequent critic of the government, particularly on social policy.