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Will Hutton

Will Hutton

The Guardian

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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...

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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...

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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 2

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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...

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The right is babbling about tax cuts while Britain burns. Pay no heed, Jeremy Hunt

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...

19.11.2023 40

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It’s easy to be dazzled by the super-rich, but don’t believe that they’ll do the right thing

Great wealth has always signified status, but today tech wealth also signifies having special futuristic insights denied the rest of us, which the...

05.11.2023 6

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Thank you Poland, for showing faith in EU values under threat from the authoritarian right

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...

22.10.2023 70

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Passing on great wealth to our children spells the end of society. Just ask Aristotle

‘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...

01.10.2023 80

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In forcing a U-turn on Horizon, scientists are showing that the flaws of Brexit can be overcome

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...

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