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Will HuttonThe Guardian |
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...
It is time “to focus on growth”, intoned the chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, on Friday. The economy, he seems to think, has turned a corner. Before...
Great wealth has always signified status, but today tech wealth also signifies having special futuristic insights denied the rest of us, which the...
A year before Boris Johnson’s Brexit and the election of Donald Trump, a little-known rightwing populist party won power again in Poland – using...
‘M oney is like muck,” wrote Francis Bacon in 1625. “Not good except it be spread.” No one accuses the father of the scientific method and...
I t was a moment when it became clear that the high-water mark of Brexit had been reached and the tide was going out fast on what is now a disgraced...