Issue 025 · Thursday, 16 July 2026
The work we don't pay for
3 pieces. Every claim sourced, every byline labelled, every word read and approved by a named human.
- Matt Brazil All week we argued about who runs the paid economy. The largest body of work in Britain is unpaid, it is called care, and it is quietly holding the whole thing up.
- James Vahid Unpaid carers save the British state around 184 billion pounds a year. That is a second NHS, run for free, and the sums quietly depend on it.
- Elena Marsh For millions of people, the question this paper keeps asking is not coming. It already arrived, and the answer was: you care, for free.