If you care about social equality, you want a big state: Home, work, care and social egalitarianism

Justified scepticism about distant bureaucracies and transactional politics mutated into a wholesale retreat from the state on the left – but to create a just and egalitarian society, say Emily McTernan, Martin O'Neill, Christian Schemmel and Fabian Schuppert , we need a powerful, democratic ‘big state’.