What's really happening to people’s living standards across Britain – and what can we do to lift them? High Resolution cuts through the noise with sharp analysis and insightful guests. We’ll be exploring the economic debates that actually matter to you - from work, wages and wealth to housing affordability and decisions on tax, benefits and public services.
High Resolution is a podcast from the Resolution Foundation, an independent think-tank dedicated to lifting living standards in the UK. You can find more information about the Resolution Foundation, including the latest analysis, on our website: https://www.resolutionfoundation.org/ (https://www.resolutionfoundation.org/)
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Could the end of the triple lock be in sight? Ruth Curtice discusses the first fourteen years of the triple lock, and considers what might come next, with Claer Barrett and Morgan Vine.
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9 Sept 2026
Devolution, defence and debt...
Can Burnham convert vibes into policy? Ruth Curtice discusses 'the three Ds' with Anand Menon and Andrew Carter.
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23 Jul 2026
Here we go again: What is the public hoping for – and worrying about – from the Burnham era?
What would 'feeling better off' really look like to voters – and how long will they give a new Prime Minister to deliver it? What do people want from the Burnham era, what are they worried about, and is disillusionment with mainstream politics still deepening? Where does the country’s mood simply match reality, and where is it even gloomier?
Ruth Curtice speaks to Luke Tryl, Executive Director of More in Common, to find out how the public feels about our latest PM.
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20 Jul 2026
New Prime Minister, old constraints: what can a ‘reset’ really deliver?
Does Burnham understand the scope of the fiscal hole he's inheriting? Hemmed in by his party's manifesto and his predecessor's fiscal rules, what options remain for him to deliver his promised change on living standards? What, exactly, will Manchesterism look like in Westminster?
Ruth Curtice – Chief Executive Resolution Foundation (Host)
Simon Pittaway – Senior Economist, Resolution Foundation
Louise Murphy – Senior Economist, Resolution Foundation
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14 Jul 2026
The generation game
Is the promise of generational progress broken for good? Or are things about to turn around for Gen Z? Professor Bobby Duffy and Lord David Willetts join Ruth Curtice to discuss how Gen Z are really faring, how that differs from previous generations, and what Government do to support young people moving forward.
Ruth Curtice – Chief Executive Resolution Foundation (Host)Lord David Willetts – President of the Resolution Foundation, Chair of the Intergenerational Centre and author of The PinchProfessor Bobby Duffy – Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Policy Institute at KCL, author of Generations
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22 Jun 2026
Happy birthday Brexit!
Ten years on, how has Brexit shaped Britain today? And what comes next? Anand Menon and Sophie Hale join Ruth Curtice to discuss how a decade of Brexit has shaped our economy, our trade and our politics.
Ruth Curtice – Chief Executive Resolution Foundation (Host)Anand Menon – Director of UKICE, Professor European Politics & Foreign Affairs at KCLSophie Hale – Research Director Resolution Foundation
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9 Jun 2026
Will new technologies make or break our jobs? Book discussion with Sarah O’Connor
New technologies have been creating and destroying jobs for millennia. In recent decades, automation has upended the way many people work, and now artificial intelligence threatens further upheaval. The impact of these trends is often described in headline job numbers. But what do they actually mean for the way we live our daily working lives?
In a groundbreaking new book, prize-winning Financial Times journalist Sarah O’Connor sets out to investigate what is happening on the front lines of technological change. She finds people who aren’t losing their jobs to machines, but who feel they are losing something else instead. But she finds hopeful stories, too: of jobs being made better, safer and more enjoyable, and where workers haven’t rejected the new tools, but have instead been able to control them.
Here Ruth, Sarah and Greg discuss the past, present, and future of technological transformations in the labour market.
Ruth Curtice – Chief Executive Resolution Foundation (Host)
Sarah O'Connor – Columnist, reporter and associate editor at the Financial Times
Greg Thwaites – Research Associate at the Resolution Foundation
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3 Jun 2026
How to win a trade war: Book discussion with Soumaya Keynes and Chad Bown
Trade wars are becoming a feature of the modern global economy and are being tied to actual wars too. Britain has played its part by voting to leave the EU, while President Trump has taken trade disruption to a new level. While it can be hard to identify ‘winners’ from trade wars, it’s easy to identify losses – so having the right strategy is crucial, especially for a mid-sized, open economy like the UK.
In a depressingly timely but accessible new book How to Win a Trade War, leading trade experts Soumaya Keynes and Chad Bown explore the history, players, and rules of trade, and ask how we prepare for what the future might hold. They explain how trade wars can lead to hot wars, and what the West can learn from China.
Ruth Curtice – Chief Executive Resolution Foundation (Host)Soumaya Keynes – Columnist at the Financial Times and host of The Economics Show podcastChad Bown – Senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics
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20 May 2026
Earning it back
Are higher living standards the key to electoral success?
Both the Government and the opposition are scrambling for new policies and messages to win back unconvinced voters. Is this new political landscape ultimately shaped by the lack of growth in household incomes? How much of the remainder of this Parliament ought to be focused on living standards? And what options really are there – whoever is sitting in Number 10 – to get incomes on an upward trajectory after two difficult decades?
Ruth Curtice – Chief Executive Resolution Foundation (Host)Jane Green - Professor of Political Science and British PoliticsHeather Stewart – Economics editor at the Guardian
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14 Apr 2026
A shock to the system
Can the Government – or the public – afford another energy crisis? RF Chief Executive Ruth Curtice speaks to Former Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt and Chief Executive of Ipsos in the UK and Ireland Kelly Beaver to ask how the Government can respond to pressures on global energy supplies and how the public feel about the prospect of another spike in bills.
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20 Mar 2026
False starts?
Why are so many young people both out of work, and not in school? Research Director Lindsay Judge speaks to Principal Economist Nye Cominetti and Chief Executive of the Nuffield Foundation Gavin Kelly, to get to the bottom of who's becoming NEET (Not in Employment, Education or Training) and why - and how we can reverse that trend.
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19 Mar 2026
Understatement of the year?
The Treasury promised us a boring non-event, which on the day was massively over-shadowed by events in the Middle East. Ruth Curtice discusses the merits of annual fiscal events, the difficulty of getting growth going, and what to expect in the Chancellor's upcoming (and unprecedented) second Mais Lecture, with James Smith (Chief Economist at the Resolution Foundation) and Giles Wilkes (Senior Fellow at the Institute for Government).
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19 Mar 2026
Who are 'Unsung Britain'?
Britain does not feel like a nation at ease – and hasn’t done for a very long while. By more than two-to-one, Britons last year judged the country to be on the “wrong track” rather than heading in the “right direction”. Ruth Curtice, the Chief Executive of the Resolution Foundation, discusses the experiences and prospects for the nation's poorer half with Scarlett Maguire and Tom Clark.
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19 Mar 2026
Growing pains
How's the Government's growth agenda going? 18 months into a government elected on a mandate of change and growth, and following the publication of Mountain climbing, we're assessing their growth strategy – its intentions, its achievements, and its prospects moving ahead into an uncertain world. Lord David Willetts, the President of the Resolution Foundation, is joined by Sophie Hale, Research Director at the Resolution Foundation, and Anna Leach, Chief Economist at the Institute of Directors.
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19 Mar 2026
Brave New Welfare
What can Westminster learn from Scotland on reforming disability benefits?
18 Mar 2026
When the levies break?
How should the Government support households with energy bills? In October 2025, the Resolution Foundation published research assessing how the Government can help families with high energy bills.
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