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The aim of this text is to analyse the conditions for a good
society and, from extensive international research, to show how
citizens can be put at the centre of the political process. This
has enormous importance for future policy which the authors
explore. With considerable support from the Commonwealth
Foundation, the book sets out to change the current political
consensus and demonstrate the route forward to sustainable
development.
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. In our society, a
wealthy minority flourish, while around one-fifth experience
chronic poverty and many people on middle incomes fear for their
futures. Social policy has failed to find answers to these problems
and there is now a demand for a new narrative to enable us to
escape from the crisis in our society. With the aim of ending
poverty, this book argues that we need to start with the society we
want, rather than framing poverty as a problem to be solved. It
calls for a bold forward-looking social policy that addresses
continuing austerity, under-resourced organisations and a lack of
social solidarity. Based on a research programme carried out by the
Webb Memorial Trust involving leading organisations, academics,
community activists, children, and surveys of more than 12,000
people living in poverty, a key theme is power which shows that the
way forward is to increase people's sense of agency in building the
society that they want.
Beyond The Pavilion spans seventy years of social, regional and
cultural history through the eyes of one of cricket’s earliest
Test match wayfarers, Barry Knight. As a ten-year-old, Barry saw
Don Bradman’s 1948 ‘Invincibles’ at Lord’s. His early days
were spent playing street cricket in London’s East End,
captaining his school against Eton College, and later captaining
England Schoolboys. At the age of fifteen, he was recruited to play
for Essex and went on to become one of England’s finest all-round
cricketers. In this memoir, Barry reflects on his international
playing career and his experiences touring India, Pakistan,
Australia and New Zealand in the 1960s. He recounts tours with Fred
Trueman, Geoff Boycott, Ted Dexter, and Colin Cowdrey and playing
against the era’s best Australian, Indian, Pakistani, and West
Indian players. He also shares stories about life in London in the
Swinging Sixties and his place in the D’Oliveira affair, and the
anti-apartheid protests. After his retirement, Barry moved to
Australia in the 1970s and became Australia’s first professional
cricket coach mentoring and developing three Test match captains:
Allan Border, Mark Taylor and Steve Waugh. He also had a front-row
seat in the development of World Series Cricket. The book includes
endorsements from leading players, commentators and journalists,
including Sir Garfield Sobers, Allan Border, Ian Chappell, Barry
Richards, Geoffrey Boycott, Doug Walters and Sir Michael Parkinson.
This sporting memoir is richly illustrated with photographs from
Andrew Leeming’s and other private collections.
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