Social affairs

Social affairs: a new beat in journalism

Reporting the Eighties — Introducing social affairs In 1987, Britain’s Margaret Thatcher famously declared there is “no such thing as society”. But social affairs journalism was already up and running to report that decade of […]

Social affairs

Social affairs: defining a beat

The reprint below is one of a short series at this website illustrating the breadth of social affairs: a new journalism beat pioneered in the 1980s by Brian Deer for The Sunday Times of London […]