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Will HuttonThe Guardian |
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
Once again, the nation is coping with the disastrous consequences of a dysfunctional state and a corresponding public philosophy – one that states...
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...
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...
The chancellor Rachel Reeves’ announcement of a far-going review into Britain’s pension fund system has the potential to rival Gordon Brown’s...
‘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...
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...
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...
Socialism is what a Labour government does, pronounced Herbert Morrison, one of the titans of the Clement Attlee administration in the 1940s. It...
Britain had it in its power to be a genuine hi-tech superpower. Instead, the opportunity slipped through our fingers, as we have been...
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...
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...
The world has changed since, post-Brexit, “Global Britain” set itself to “pivot” from sclerotic Europe towards booming Asia. Always a fanciful...
Britain’s economic and social challenges are now so monumental that they require a response on a transformational scale. Addressing a failing...
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt likes to tell business leaders not to worry about political instability and more policy upset. He claims to be carefully...
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...
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...
Britain is discovering that the local is political, that civilisation begins with good access to social care and regular bin collections. Slash...
Britain is unravelling in front of our eyes. No week passes without another dial on the economic, social and security dashboard flashing either amber...
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...
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...
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...
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...