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Will Hutton

Will Hutton

The Guardian

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Farmers have hoarded land for too long. Inheritance tax will bring new life to rural Britain

One of the baleful dimensions of our times is the way that the conversation about what constitutes the good society is framed by the rich and their...

17.11.2024 400

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Investment drives growth. That’s why gloomy forecasters are so wrong about the budget

There is a consensus among economists that a precondition for higher growth is higher levels of investment, and that one of the most certain ways of...

03.11.2024 40

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Britain’s wealth gap is growing. Its malign effects seep into all aspects of life. It’s a national disaster

Britain is a wealthy country, but the gap between our richest and poorest 10% is now, the US excepted, the highest in the developed world....

20.10.2024 80

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After 100 days of mistakes, we need to hear Labour’s underlying philosophy

Writing a book with a provocative title has its risks. In This Time No Mistakes : How to Remake Britain I argue that the government must...

06.10.2024 50

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‘Levelling up’ began five years ago. Now we’re more divided than ever. Is this the UK’s fate?

Stuck. Too many Britons are stuck in neighbourhoods they find unlovely and depressing, jobs that are going nowhere and lives with too little sense of...

22.09.2024 20

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The Grenfell report is a blueprint for an overhaul of our dysfunctional state

Once again, the nation is coping with the disastrous consequences of a dysfunctional state and a corresponding public philosophy – one that states...

08.09.2024 50

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Britain could be a sci-tech superpower – if the Treasury stopped holding it back

Just how bad is the economy? The chancellor, Rachel Reeves, warns that hard choices on tax, spending and borrowing need to be made on 30 October when...

25.08.2024 20

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Rupert Murdoch’s secret succession drama is a warning to rein in the super-rich

We live in an era of private dynasties. America’s billionaires are worth a cool $5.5tn at the last count. Three – Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Tesla’s...

28.07.2024 40

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Pension reform is the key to unleashing investment boom and turning round stock market

The chancellor Rachel Reeves’ announcement of a far-going review into Britain’s pension fund system has the potential to rival Gordon Brown’s...

21.07.2024 60

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The rich were led to believe they were different. Those days are numbered

‘Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me,” wrote F Scott Fitzgerald in 1925. “They think, deep in their...

14.07.2024 200

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Labour needs billions to fund its plans – and I know where it can be found

Since its foundation in 1900, the Labour party has had a Janus-headed attitude to capitalism. It needs capitalism to be successful, dynamic and job...

30.06.2024 40

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Thatcherism, austerity, Brexit, Liz Truss... goodbye and good riddance to all that

The Tory party in three weeks’ time promises to be in a more ruinous, even life-threatening position than Labour was in the aftermath of the 2019...

16.06.2024 90

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Socialism isn’t a dirty word. It’s simply about wanting to make a fairer society

Socialism is what a Labour government does, pronounced Herbert Morrison, one of the titans of the Clement Attlee administration in the 1940s. It...

02.06.2024 100

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We’ve got the talent and the tech. So why can’t Britain grow its own world-beaters?

Britain had it in its power to be a genuine hi-tech superpower. Instead, the opportunity slipped through our fingers, as we have been...

19.05.2024 40

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So empire and the slave trade contributed little to Britain’s wealth? Pull the other one, Kemi Badenoch

Britain ran an empire for centuries that at its peak 100 years ago occupied just under a quarter of the world’s land area. Yet if you believe...

05.05.2024 70

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Britain was wise to cleave to Europe as the empire began to disintegrate. It’s time to do it again

There were fateful choices in the autumn of 1931 and the months that followed whose consequences affect us today. The beliefs still current in British...

21.04.2024 100

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Ditching European trade for China and India was ever a poor bet. Now it’s a farce

The world has changed since, post-Brexit, “Global Britain” set itself to “pivot” from sclerotic Europe towards booming Asia. Always a fanciful...

07.04.2024 40

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Conservatism’s biggest failure is the despair it has created about Britain’s future

Britain’s economic and social challenges are now so monumental that they require a response on a transformational scale. Addressing a failing...

01.04.2024 40

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For the birds? Far from it. At last Rachel Reeves has given Britain a plan for economic liftoff

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt likes to tell business leaders not to worry about political instability and more policy upset. He claims to be carefully...

24.03.2024 50

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Ignore the rightwing moaners. We don’t have 9m shirkers – they just want better work

One in five working-age adults – about 8 million people – live in poverty. Two million of them report that they go without food at least once a...

17.03.2024 20

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The first step to our economic liberation is to tear up these crippling fiscal rules

The heart of Britain’s problem is that we don’t invest enough in ourselves – a pattern that has grown most acute over the last 14 years of...

18.02.2024 40

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The Tories starved councils, thinking no one cared. Now they’re bust – and we care very much

Britain is discovering that the local is political, that civilisation begins with good access to social care and regular bin collections. Slash...

04.02.2024 100

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Jeremy Hunt, instead of blowing £10bn on tax cuts, why not spend it on boosting growth?

Britain is unravelling in front of our eyes. No week passes without another dial on the economic, social and security dashboard flashing either amber...

21.01.2024 10

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Management and unions cooperating? That would make everyone happier

We spend more time working than doing anything else. The quality of our relationships at work is one of the most important sources of our wellbeing...

07.01.2024 20

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Britain is stuck in a doom loop: the system is rigged against growth. That needs to change

The British corporate sector is dying in front of our eyes. Corporate decay and the lifelessness of our stock market, now ranking a mere 10th in the...

31.12.2023 30

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With Bidenomics beginning to pay off, Keir Starmer needs to keep the faith and lift the gloom

Now here’s a thing. American unemployment is at a 50-year low. Confidence is growing that the US may have dodged a bullet – there is not going to...

17.12.2023 40

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No 10 daren’t admit it, but Ursula von der Leyen is right: we’ll be going back on Brexit

There was little doubt who came ahead in the spat between Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, and Rishi Sunak last week...

03.12.2023 100

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