Will Hutton

Profile: Full name: Will Hutton Area of interest: British, European and international politics Journals/Organisation: The Observer | The Guardian Email: whutton@theworkfoundation.com Personal website: Website: http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/willhutton Blog: Representation: Networks: https://twitter.com/#!/williamnhutton

Biography: About: "Will Hutton is the Principal of Hertford College, Oxford University. He is also the Chair of the Big Innovation Centre at The Work Foundation – the most influential voice on work, employment and organisation issues in the UK. Regularly called on to advise senior political and business figures and comment in the national and international media, Will is today one of the pre-eminent economics commentators in the country" - http://www.theworkfoundation.com/Aboutus/Our-People/58/Will-Hutton Education: Chislehurst and Sidcup Grammar School; Bristol University: Sociology and Economics; INSEAD: MBA Career: Began his career as a stockbroker and investment analyst, before working in BBC TV and radio as a producer and reporter. BBC Newsnight: economics editor, 1983/88; European Business Channel: editor in chief, 1988/90; The Guardian: economics editor, 1990/1996; The Observer: editor then editor-in-chief, 1996/2000 Current position/role: Columnist also writes/written for: The New York Observer, The Washington Post and The Boston Globe Other roles/Main role: Chief executive of The Work Foundation Principal of Hertford College, Oxford Governor of the London School of Economics Honorary Fellow, Mansfield College, Oxford Visiting Professor, Manchester University Business School and Bristol University Member of the Scott Trust Fellow of the Sunningdale Institute Other activities: In May 2010, Hutton was appointed to lead an inquiry into cutting top public sector pay by the new Prime Minister, David Cameron Invited by the EU commission to join a high-level group on the mid-term review of the Lisbon strategy and acted as rapporteur for the report published in November 2004 Disclosures: Viewpoints/Insight: Broadcast media: Video: Crash - How the Banks Went Bust & How Long Will It Last?, Dispatches, Channel 4, April 2009 Controversy/Criticism: Awards/Honours: The Dispatches documentaries, Crash (see above), on the inside story of the financial crash and its aftershocks won a prestigious Wincott award for the best television coverage in 2009 of a topical business issue (The Wincott Foundation) Scoops: Other: Political Journalist of the Year award in 1993

Books & Debate: The revolution that never was: an assessment of Keynesian economics OCLC12286197, 1986 The state we're in: why Britain is in crisis and how to overcome it OCLC32187827, 1995 The state to come OCLC59628076, 1997 The stakeholding society: writings on politics and economics OCLC40061241, 1998 Salvos and skirmishes: The state of our community OCLC60183340, 1998 On the edge: living with global capitalism OCLC42792489, (ed. with Anthony Giddens), 2000 Global capitalism OCLC , (ed. with Anthony Giddens), 2000 The world we're in OCLC48837254, 2002 A declaration of interdependence: why America should join the world OCLC51163494, 2003 The writing on the wall: China and the west in the 21st century OCLC 71807957, 2006 Creative apprenticeship OCLC155676580, 2007 Latest work: Them and Us - Why We Need a Fair Society OCLC458732613, October 2010. See: Can Britain ever be a fair society? - In his new book, Them and Us, the economist Will Hutton argues that it can – but only if the state reins in capitalism, Julian Glover, The Guardian Speaking/Appearances: Kilkenomics Festival, Kilkenny, Ireland, 2nd-6th November 2011 Capitalism in crisis debates, Part one: The Queen's question: 'Why did no one see it coming?', 24th February 2009 China and the West in the 21st Century, Australian National University, 1st June 2007 Current debate:Responses to Public sector senior pay plan unveiled by Will Hutton, 16th March 2011 Will Hutton proposes a performance-related pay cut in the public sector. Has he lost his mind? - Janet Daley Will Hutton performs unevenly on public sector pay - Deborah Hargreaves Will Hutton's naive pay review won't stop the bosses' bonus racket - Simon Jenkins

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Articles: 2012 This crushing debt trap threatens to bring down the whole of Europe - The continent's electorates want a way out of austerity, but their will endangers the single currency - 13th May Mervyn King didn't grasp the crisis then – and he doesn't now - Sir Mervyn cannot bring himself to declare that the Bank was party to the gigantic intellectual mistake that led to the crisis - 6th May Osborne is intellectually broken and the real enemy of business - It was obvious to everybody that the recovery the chancellor predicted could not happen. And so it has proved - 29th April George Osborne, the kamikaze chancellor - Osborne has such a primitive view of what makes capitalism tick. This double-dip slump is made in Britain - 26th April Argentina's oil grab is timely retort to rampaging capitalism - Cristina Fernández's actions, however clumsy, are part of a worldwide reaction to exploitation by business and the rich - 22nd April Beyond the scandal lies a crisis at the heart of China's legitimacy - A Chinese Spring is inevitable if the party leadership doesn't reform itself - 15th April What's the story of the next decade? The rebirth of Japan - The country's urge to reset its business culture is a lesson to Britain in finding the way back to prosperity - 1st April This disgraceful budget smacks of incompetence and cowardice - George Osborne's speech was littered with dissimulation and sometimes near-lies - 25th March How to be a better steward of our assets - Britain has allowed ownership to become too monolithic - 14th March Enough quick fixes, Mr Osborne. Overhaul the tax system now - We have a system riddled with flaws and the chancellor should use this month's budget to transform it for the better - 11th March Why we need to rethink our cities if Britain is to thrive - For the sake of the economy, Britain's big cities should be granted greater powers - 26th February Companies must stop hoarding cash and start investing instead - David Cameron and George Osborne have still not developed a full-throated industrial policy that would encourage companies to spend money on investment and innovation - 19th February Teachers, stop being so defensive. It's time to embrace the no-excuses culture - Instead of bridling about criticism, teachers should take on board Michael Wilshaw's plans for improving schools - 12th February Why do we continue to isolate ourselves by only speaking English? - Britain's future economic and political wellbeing is being hamstrung by our reluctance to learn foreign languages - 5th February Globalisation can work, but only with a unified international plan - We desperately needs economic and social institutions working across national borders - 29th January Words won't change capitalism. So be daring and do something - Western governments must replace their redundant inflation targets with a target for the growth of the value of the goods and service they produce - 22nd January Now is not the time to turn our backs on Enlightenment values - From Hungary to South Africa, the US to the UK, the right no longer embraces progress or tolerance, reason or democratic argument - 8th January

Articles: 2011 A chance for the UK to have banks fit for all seasons - Britian’s lenders, like St Augustine, are prepared to be good – but not yet - 20th December It as an act of crass stupidity to be on the margins of Europe - Cameron has made a crucial misjudgment - 11th December George Osborne has no idea how to rescue the economy – but then who has? - Anyone who believes the chancellor merely has to keep calm and carry on ignores the likely consequences - 4th December For his next trick, Mr Osborne must offer us a bold new world - The government is showing a new readiness to cross an ideological Rubicon - 27th November There is only one alternative to the euro's survival: catastrophe - Little Englanders – and blinkered Germans – need to wake up to the implications of a fractured eurozone - 13th November Europe takes an inspiring leap but Britain has a lesson to learn - Europeans are engaging in something more bold and innovative but argument is not going to change England's hostility - 30th October Plan B could have been even more aggressive, but it would definitely work - Without a state that has the capacity to stimulate enterprise, UK will be stuck with dysfunctional structures that led us into crisis - 30th October Enough of Mervyn King and the economics of La La Land - The governor of the Bank of England seems to believe that Europe's sovereign debt and bank crisis was what threw Britain's recovery off track. He is wrong - 23rd October It's time to prove you are also an iron chancellor, Mr Osborne - The chancellor must encourage demand and must stimulate banking lending - 9th October Good capitalism does exist. And it's more crucial now than ever - Some may have sneered at Ed Miliband's key idea, but the Labour leader is right to challenge the old order - 2nd October The quest for knowledge is good in itself and helps the country thrive - As the new principal of Hertford College, I passionately believe universities must cleave to Enlightment principles - 25th September The ailing euro is part of a wider crisis. Our capitalist system is near meltdown - A 1930s-style crash threatens us and our financial partners. Collective action is the only solution - 18th September The Vickers reforms will usher in a brave new world for banks - Proposals to ringfence retail banking from investment arms will give Britain a safer, more competitive banking system - 13th September Growth is about so much more than just the top rate of tax - The notion that so-called 'wealth-generators' must be treated differently from the rest of us is nonsense that has gone on for too long - 11th September We are on the verge of a new age of invention - The next ‘big thing’ won’t happen on its own. Entrepreneurs need more than just ideas - 8th September Banking reform: ringfencing is the only solution - Despite protests from the business lobby, the government must stand its ground if we're to avoid a second bailout - 4th September UK riots: Our wounded nation will not be healed by vengeful gestures - A peaceful protest outside one London police station evolved into successive wild nights of looting, violence and lawlessness across the country. Two of the Observer's leading commentators, Will Hutton and Henry Porter ask: where does England go from here? - 14th August Our financial system has become a madhouse. We need radical change - As a new global crisis looms, and political paralysis worsens, genuinely bold solutions are required to overcome the malaise - 7th August China will implode if it doesn't change its authoritarian ways - A knowledge economy operating at the frontiers of technology is incompatible with a one-party state - 30th July Osborne needs a plan Asian - After Britain's dismal growth figures, only a paradigm shift in the economy will do. But is George Osborne up to it? - 27th July Even now, the European project remains a noble one. Let's join in - The survival of the euro marks a crucial moment in the rebirth of the continent - 24th July What hope is there for us if America is driven to the brink of meltdown? - If the US cannot service its public debts and defaults, the outcome will have catastrophic consequences - 17th July British democracy can't live with Murdoch's BSkyB bid - He made the bet of a lifetime on satellite TV. But his media ambitions and the national interest now violently collide - 13th July British bankers are still gambling while small businesses go to the wall - The government must take this chance to make the big financiers put their money behind our industry - 3rd July A spiteful, vindictive agenda is poisoning our national debate - There is an increasing urge to tar and feather whatever scapegoat at whatever cost - 26th June Europe needs a new financial deal and Britain must help build it - If we ignore Greece's crippling financial plight, we are inviting the same meltdown in our own system - 19th June With a little bit of fairness, state and capitalism can live together - The state and capitalism need to learn to trust each other. But there are obstacles to overcome, not least coalition misjudgments - 12th June The UK could be leading with a new economic approach, instead we follow - A consensus in favour of stimulus has disappeared – and Britain is leading the way in the wrong direction - 5th June We know what Labour's against. Now let us hear what it is for - Labour heads have to be knocked together and a new centre-left philosophy created - 29th May When we sold off the railways, we created today's shambles - Our trains are a scandal and only wholesale restructuring can save passengers from further misery - 22nd May While the European left dithers, the right marches menacingly on - Immigration: The longer the left's response is confused, the more the populist right begins to make xenophobia acceptable - 15th May The country needs an economic vision, but who will provide it? - Labour's lost its voice, the Lib Dems are denying their past and the Tories revel in living by Victorian orthodoxies - 8th May Don't be naive about the brutal desire driving the Tories' lust for power - The Conservatives are determined to win the referendum. And too many on the left unwisely agree with them - 1st May The British economy might be sclerotic, but at least we can still do a good royal wedding - The royal wedding was a classic episode of the world's longest-running soap - 1st May The United States faces a crisis not seen since the Depression - The poisonous atmosphere surrounding the role of the state and taxation allows no realistic budget bargaining - 24th April Yet again, a chance to rein in the bankers has been squandered - It seems we have learned nothing from the financial crisis and are willing to let the City carry on as it likes - 17th April We have forgotten the economic lessons our forebears taught us - The thinking that Keynes saw as destructive seems to be driving our government - 10th April Mr Osborne's stunted thinking will leave the economy stalled - We needed a programme of deficit reduction that offered hope rather than despair - 27th March When our leaders actually earn their money, fairness will follow - A new formula to make executive pay equitable is long overdue, especially in the private sector - 20th March Fair pay: my vision for the public sector - By being open about top salaries and conducting regular reviews the spotlight will then turn to the private sector - 15th March High pay must be earned by good results - Will Hutton says his report on public sector pay, out tomorrow, should help taxpayers get value for money - 14th March Yes, there are some big salaries in the public sector. But that's not the problem - The author of a major report on bosses' pay says their lack of transparency merely fuels anger and suspicion - 13th March We're such a feeble nation that Murdoch was bound to triumph - If Rupert Murdoch gets BSkyB, it will be a victory for monopoly capitalism - 27th February And as people get poorer, the buck stops with you, Mervyn King - The Bank of England governor is in the middle of two rows, one over his backing for the cuts and the other over not raising interest rates - 20th February Ireland's austerity plan is self-defeatingly harsh - The Irish Labour party is right to challenge the national appetite for the wrong medicine. Britain should watch the debate closely - 19th February Don't be blinded by the web. The world is actually stagnating - If we want to step up the pace of invention, there has to be a huge shift in the way we think - 12th February Where are the leaders who will reform the world's economy? - The world financial system needs a radical overhaul – though last week's cosy Davos conference suggested otherwise - 30th January Ten ideas for a better Britain - Will Hutton, vice-chair of the Work Foundation, lists the things Labour will only challenge by rediscovering its radical edge - 23rd January Bringing the bankers to heel must start right here, right now - Big Finance has to be brought under control or outrageous bonuses will still be paid and there will be another crisis - 16th January

Articles: 2010 Heathrow's chaos is indicative of a wider national malaise - We have the oddest and most regressive constitution for private ownership anywhere in western capitalism - 26th December It was wrong to strip Vince Cable of the BSkyB decision - Taking the Murdoch decision away from Vince Cable stopped this story in its tracks – but made it a poisoned chalice - 22nd December China's fury over the Nobel showed weakness, not strength - China's propaganda campaign against the Nobel committee is symptomatic of its fears for the regime - 12th December Rein in the fat cat salaries or see public services suffer even more - The current market in top people's pay is creating an imbalance in society that makes life less fair for everyone - 5th December A fairer pay gap between top and bottom - Capitalism at its best is the best generator of wealth we know - 1st December (writing in the FT) Don't blame the euro for the ills besetting Ireland's economy - There are people here who say Ireland should get out of the single currency, that it was the cause of the country's financial fiasco. They are wrong - 21st November I was a student protester, but this generation faces a harder future - Last week's events in London reflect the growing unease at coalition policies - 14th November The coalition is taking a huge gamble with the economy - To get anywhere near its target requires nothing less than an export and investment boom - 24th October History will see these cuts as one of the great acts of political folly - As America and China square up, the chancellor is ignoring the bigger picture with his ill-advised spending review - 17th October We deserve a fair society, but it won't be created by a vendetta against the poor - David Cameron and George Osborne launched a fundamental reshaping of the welfare state in the name of fairness. What we really need is a spirit of enlightened generosity - 10th October University fees are going to rise. They have to be fair to the poor - It is critical that we decide soon how best to pay for further educatio - 3rd October City reform has got off to a good start. Now for some real action - Bank reform: This may, just may, be the moment that the one-sided relationship between the City and the rest of us is at last recast - 26th September David Miliband is the man best placed for leadership - Both the party and the country need a leader who will not jettison the political legitimacy won by Tony Blair - 19th September Rupert Murdoch and the future of British media - As angry MPs agree witnesses should be called to account over the phone-hacking affair, Henry Porter and Will Hutton examine the wide influence of the media empire behind the scandal - 11th September What the Coulson affair tells us about Murdoch's lust for power - The Andy Coulson allegations have highlighted the shabby nature of media regulation in this country - 5th September Stick up for the BBC. It's the last bulwark against rule by the mob - Having a go at the corporation is a favourite pursuit of politicians. But we ignore its worth to the nation at our peril - 25th July £200,000 for a headteacher? Does that strike you as being fair? -The case of Mark Elms has given us the perfect opportunity to decide what someone's truly worth - 18th July Without any fear for the future, boys have given up their ambition - Celebrity culture and the huge salaries in football or banking have undermined the motivation to study or work - 3rd July Beware politicians moralising on the sin of indebtedness - The G20 summit should be an occasion for economic sense. Don't hold your breath - 27th June There is no logic to the brutish cuts that George Osborne is proposing - The chancellor constantly cites Sweden and Canada as models, but at least they tried to energise their economies - 20th June The banks have refused to mend their ways. Beware the next crash - After the crisis there were cries of 'never again'. But the glacial pace of reform leaves us all in imminent danger - 13th June If Germany can't stop the collapse of European hopes, who can? - European governments have just a matter of months to find a way of making the euro a credible currency - 30th May Vince Cable's challenge will be to bring the chancellor to heel - Mr Osborne is the top dog on banking reform because his Treasury is so important, but Mr Cable still holds cards - 16th May Forget the niceties, Nick, shun the Tories and join with Labour - The Liberal Democrats have real power in their hands. They must use it ruthlessly to usher in a fairer Britain - 9th May (Cif at the polls) If Labour is wise, it will usher Nick Clegg into Downing Street - After a calamitous campaign, Gordon Brown must go. To maintain a grip on power, the party has only one option - 2nd May This grotesque and unfair voting system must change - Proportional representation won't cure all our political ills, but it would make for fairer elections and government - 25th April The country's renewal is being betrayed by cheap, paltry politics - The squabble over national insurance is a sideshow. We need to discuss how to overhaul Britain's financial heart - 11th April Modern capitalism is at a moral dead end. And the bosses are to blame - Capitalism will be continue to be demonised while our CEOs refuse to put their own corrupt house in order - 4th April If the US declares economic war on China, we should all tremble - China and Germany exploit the global system without accepting reciprocal responsibilities to manage it. It cannot go on - 28th March Budget 2010: The march to sanity begins - Alistair Darling's budget is the first serious effort to support innovation and investment since the war - 25th March Don't destroy our universities. Our future depends on them - With knowledge-intensive work growing ever more important, the government must rethink its stance on university cuts - 21st March Don't celebrate these billionaires, be horrified by their existence - It's just accepted that more billionaires of any hue is a sign of economic vitality. Wrong - 14th March A unique chance to hold Europe together must not be wasted - Charged with creating coherence between 27 countries, Baroness Ashton must stamp her authority over the individual countries who would undermine her role - 7th March Fairness, not capitalism, is the issue - Citizen ethics: To fix our economic system we must return to giving people rewards that are in proportion to the work they do - 26th February To thrive we need to distinguish between morality and economics - The current battle between the economists may seem to be about economics. It is not. It is about the morality of debt - 21st February Don't laugh at Europe's woes. The travails facing Greece are also ours - The struggle to stop Greece from becoming a failed state and to make the euro work is one for all Europe, including Britain - 14th February The Tories have the answers, but not the strength to deliver - David Cameron and George Osborne are creating a new Tory philosophy. Now all they have to do is revolutionise the party - 7th February Boris Johnson v Will Hutton - Is London's banking system a vital cog that keeps the capital running, or a timebomb in the British economy? Let the debate begin... - 24th January Review the sell-off of great British companies - Will Hutton and Phillip Blond call for reform - 21st January (writing in the FT) Of course class still matters – it influences everything that we do - The only way to create a fairer society is to start talking about it. The discussion starts here - 10th January Despite the doom-mongers, the UK economy isn't a basket case after all - After nearly two years of financial and economic mayhem, this will be a year of a steadily improving economy - 3rd January

Articles: 2009 Darling's plan was more radical than he got credit for. But it's not enough - It is quite an achievement to set out a painful plan to reduce Britain's budget deficit by £100bn and still be accused of timidity, dithering and buck-passing - 13th December This tax on the City is a bonus - The pre-budget report is a symbolic moment, signalling a shift in priorities on bankers – now it must be taken further - 10th December Cadbury is a great British company, so we should treasure it, not let it go - A venerable company will be broken up and its workforce cut. This illustrates how ownership in this country should be overhauled - 29th November Conventional wisdom won't save the economy - The financial propositions raised in the Queen's speech aren't clever enough to work in these unconventional times - 19th November The great debate: Will Hutton vs George Osborne - Merely reducing Britain's trillion-pound debt mountain will not be enough to reinvigorate the economy: the tricky bit is stimulating growth at the same time. Observer columnist Will Hutton goes head to head with George Osborne, the shadow chancellor - 15th November Discarded mobiles, wire-taps and Mr Bigs. Welcome to Wall Street - Imagine The Sopranos, The Wire and Gordon Gekko all rolled into one. You don't have to: the FBI has just broken one of the largest-ever insider dealing rings in Wall Street - 8th November Still big. Still unbeautiful - The chance to break up UK banks has been funked – the City lobby made sure of that - 4th November These money-grubbing companies make the public sector look good - The simple equation that the private sector is good and the public sector bad has blighted our lives for decades - 1st November Mervyn King is right – the time has come to break up the megabanks - The only path to a sustainable recovery is to take on big finance - 25th October It's payback time for our bailed-out bankers - Adair Turner has said it, Mervyn King has said it: the City needs root-and-branch reform. If only Alistair Darling would do it - 21st October Is it finally time to end the bonus culture in the City? - with Heather McGregor - 18th October Sorry, David, if you roll back the state, you invite disaster - David Cameron is wrong to declare we need a more hands-off approach. That's what got us into this recession in the first place - 11th October Mandelson was Brighton's darling but Brown gave Labour a future - The prime minister's Brighton speech marked his return to social democracy and helped ensure that his party will bounce back after an election defeat - 4th October We now live in a society so cynical that cheating has become the norm - Humanity's natural instinct for fairness has been undermined by a society and a government unwilling to punish the cheats - 27th September When it comes to life, love and true happiness, Sarkozy is leading the way - The French president's plan to rethink the way we judge economic and social performance is to be applauded - 20th September Slashing the national debt can wait. First we must invest, invest, invest - worrying about the budget deficit is a sure way to economic collapse - 13th September The G20 has saved us, but it's failing to rein in those who caused the crisis - The stranglehold of a new financial oligarchy upon public policy has hardly been touched. Unless there is change, a second and more serious crisis potentially awaits - 6th September It's still not too late for you to cut the City down to size, Mr Brown - Lord Turner, chair of the Financial Services Authority, has called on the prime minister and the chancellor to introduce a tax on international transactions to curb the City's excesses - 30th August Don't let the defeatists and cynics talk down Britain's need for speed - Our lack of high-speed railways is humiliating. In this key capability, Britain is a banana republic - 2nd August At last, Brown is getting it right. His tragedy is that no one can see it - Recently, the subterranean balance of the deep argument has begun to swing back to Brown - 26th July Our laboratories and colleges ought to define Britain, not our greed - Instead of pleading for hedge funds Johnson should argue for more resources for our universities - 12th July O Lord help them be tough on the City – but not yet - Proposals on financial reform point in the right direction, but it will all be in vain unless pursued with courage and vision - 9th July Hail the man who argues Britain should stop worrying about its debt - Tough talk about deficit reduction must wait until calmer times - 5th July Is western supremacy but a blip as China rises to the global summit? - The country's trajectory and the change in its people's values and aspirations are cause for heated debate. Two experts go head to head - 23rd June (with Martin Jacques), See also: China: summary When the boss asks you to take a pay cut, demand a share in the company - The best British companies are doing all they can to secure jobs with fair wage cuts - 21st June It's the Conservatives who are now promising real reform in the City - Reforming the City of London takes both political courage and intellectual conviction - 14th June Until we change the system, prime ministers will always act like king - the plenipotentiary powers of the prime minister quickly turn Number 10 into a court - 7th June The lessons we should learn from the wreckage of the British car industry - My generation's opportunity to reform the way Britain does capitalism and democracy has been squandered - 31st May Europe might be a better place without the contemptuous, indifferent British - This year's elections for the European Parliament are even more low profile than 2004's - 24th May An awesome warning - Japan's brutal economic decline has been brought about by circumstances very similar to those now emerging in Britain - 21st May Reorchestrating the second chamber - A new politics: The Lords is the Commons' poor relation. That must end with the creation of an effective, representative revising chamber - 20th May Do not be fooled by green shoots in the City – our pain will continue - We need a mindset more like the 1930s – trying to develop our economy, encouraging innovation and insisting our banks serve business - 10th May Life may not be fair, but that's still no excuse for an unjust society - The Labour party and wider society are suffering the consequences of failing to build a consensus over what is fair - 3rd May Britain's no longer a world power, so let's be a better, fairer nation - Over the next decade, Britain will become a middle-ranking European country as its economic and political pretensions evaporate - 26th April Alistair Darling - the red ink chancellor - Alistair Darling did well in a very tight spot. To obsess about reducing the deficit would backfire - 23rd April You give bankers £1.3 trillion and do they thank you? Do they hell - The business model of banks is not just a matter for banks, it is a matter of the keenest public interest - 19th April The environment is too important to be left to the green movement - The green movement as it stands should receive the last rites. It is time to move on - 12th April The trillion dollar question: will banks now join the rest of us in the real world? - The G20 meeting administered the death rites to the injustices of top-heavy, Anglo-Saxon financial capitalism - 5th April It's easy to sneer, but this G20 summit will make a difference - The protesters have it right - global finance needs to be tamed. Fortunately we're about to hear some innovative proposals - 29th March Look no further than inequality for the source of all our ills - What happens in the City is linked by a golden thread to the grim case load of an overstretched social worker - 15th March Printing money is the right way to get us out of this mess - What is needed is some trigger to make people think that, after all, the world will not end - 8th March It's time to tell America some home truths, Prime Minister - At home, Mr Brown is getting his economic policies at home right. Now he must persuade others, especially the US, they can work for all - 1st March 2009 Obama has picked the wrong hero for our times - In order to save the global economy, the President has to stop trying to satisfy everybody. He should follow the example of Roosevelt and leave Lincoln behind - 15th February Behind tax avoidance lies an ideology that has had its day. We must end it - Neoconservatism has collapsed. The need for the state should now be evident to all - and that includes big companies - 14th February (The Guardian) We can replicate the beauty that came from the Depression - There is work to be done and a growing army of Britons who need to do it for their self-worth and living standards - 8th February The love of labour - Many employers are fighting to conserve jobs, and too little is being done to help them - 27th January (The Guardian) Yes it's bad, but at long last the government is getting it right - Powerful steps have been taken to revive the economy. Now Gordon Brown must ensure the City loses its power to harm us - 25th January Unless we are decisive Britain faces bankruptcy - Our financial institutions are fighting for their lives and the Treasury may not be able to bail them out. The government needs to get serious to avert meltdown - 18th January

Articles: 2008 We need a moral vision as well as money to rebuild Britain - After a year of meltdown and missed opportunities, we will require wisdom, imagination and a new ethic if we are to recover - 28th December 2008 Detroit has run out of road. The car's future lies in Europe - Last-ditch bids by US motor companies is more than an appeal for a bail-out: it is American capitalism and society at a crossroads - 7th December 2008 A late calling to account - British banking is being forced to accommodate its users, in both lending and supporting business - The Guardian, 2nd December 2008 Heed the visionaries who can ease the pain of recession - The government should listen to the advice of Robert Shiller and James Crosby - 30th November 2008 Bold, imaginative – and it might just work - Not since Nigel Lawson cut the top rate of tax to 40% in 1988 has the Commons seen such a risk-taking performance - The Guardian, 25th November 2008 Tomorrow, Mr Darling must introduce morality into the City - We need to reinvent the British banking system - 23rd November 2008 The fallacy of the fix - Reform just won't cut it. We need nothing less than an overhaul of the way we do capitalism - 19th November 2008 It might be politically toxic - but we must join the euro now - 16th November 2008 Banking's Marshall Plan - The way we are punishing irresponsible financiers is hurting us more than it is them. Time to cool down - The Guardian, 14th November 2008 This week, our leaders have a chance to make the world anew - More than 60 years ago in New Hampshire, the world's economies were recast. Now, as they lie in ruin, Gordon Brown must inspire those meeting for Bretton Woods II - 9th November 2008 Governor, we need a 1% cut - The Bank of England's interest rate setters must deliver - and stop the economy falling off a cliff - The Guardian, 5th November 2008 Will the real Keynes stand up, not this sad caricature? - The great economist is back in fashion, but it will be a disaster if his brilliant theories are now misapplied - 2nd November 2008 Don't expect China to get the West out of this mess - 26th October 2008 Stop these irrational gamblers now - before the recession turns into something worse - In order to make banks less dependent on the shadow financial system, governments must insure and guarantee debt - 26th October 2008 Smoke clears to reveal the monster of rising unemployment - 19th October 2008 The nightmare continues - on a high street near you - The chinks in the rescue armour are appearing as fear migrates from prospects of meltdown to general economic anxiety - 16th October 2008 £37bn won't fix this fiasco - The brute reality is that we are only at the end of the start of a solution to a broken business model - 14th October 2008 Without real leadership, we face disaster - A lethal new threat is emerging at the dark heart of the financial system. We must have a unified global response or an already perilous position will become a calamity - 12th October 2008 Brown and Darling have bitten the bullet - and set the world an example - The Guardian, 9th October 2008 Five crucial moves - Had I been at last night's crunch No 10 meeting, I'd have made the case for these urgent steps - The Guardian, 8th October 2008 Dithering Britain needs its own plan, and it may hinge on joining the euro - The rot has deepened to the sound of twiddling thumbs. A lopsided UK economy could be left relying on European help - The Guardian, 1st October 2008 I've watched the economy for 30 years. Now I'm truly scared - There is no chance for trust in the financial sector until the return of fairness - 28th September 2008 The US took action in the face of crisis. We must do the same - While America shows imagination and guts, Britain's paltry response to coming depression has done no more than buy time - 21st September 2008 Now is the time to seize power from the markets - The financial crisis presents grave dangers for the world - but a huge opportunity for the politically bold - 14th September 2008 Foreign ownership may be fun, but beware the penalties - the Manchester City takeover, Blue Heaven - 7th September 2008 Don't make the consumer pay for these inflated fuel prices - The government needs to address the way the entire energy market - and welfare system - is organised - 3rd August 2008 A week that taught me home truths about the housing crisis - In today's housing market, you don't argue with a potential buyer - 27th July 2008 Our economy's crumbling. We need to spend our way out - Brown's and New Labour's greatest asset - their reputation for economic competence - is taking a beating - 20th July 2008 Rebel bishops threaten the very heart of our liberal traditions - Anglicanism is a liberal tradition central to the very conception of Englishness, but it finds itself under mounting threat - 6th July 2008 Liberty is our common inheritance - This isn't a question of left or right. We should fight together in defence of our freedoms - guardian.co.uk - 3rd July 2008 As we suffer, City speculators are moving in for the kill - As the credit crunch deepens and prices spiral upwards the antics of the hedge fund managers are making our lives even worse - 29th June 2008 If we rely on free markets, we are looking disaster in the face - 22nd June 2008 Managing expectations, not the economy - Alistair Darling talks tough on wages and inflation – but fails to impress by his laissez-faire approach to the current crisis - 19th June 2008 Europe must not be derailed by lies and disinformation - 15th June 2008 West versus the rest - Robert Kagan might be a neocon who was demonstrably wrong about Iraq, but he has some challenging ideas about a post-United Nations world - 8th June 2008 What I told the Pope about how to shape the new capitalism - Decent wages, dignity at work, no profit without morals - when it comes to reforming the unstable market economy, the Catholic church is leading where New Labour fears to tread - 1st June 2008 Beijing's quick response to disaster won't cover cracks of corruption - 18th May 2008 Forget the naysayers - America remains an inspiration to us all - 11th May 2008 Feeble government lets the superclass soar over the rest of us - 4th May 2008 Try as he might, the wind is set against George Osborne - 27th April 2008 This is no bankers' bet - UK financial institutions have to acknowledge that responsibilities come with state funds - 22nd April 2008 Smell the coffee - Chummy breakfasts with bankers show little urgency in the face of a financial tsunami - The Guardian - 16th April 2008 Government fiddles while the price of houses burns - After years of reckless lending by banks, only radical financial action can avert a full-blown recession - 13th April 2008 Let's get over our silly fears of public ownership - 6th April 2008 Terminal 5, another British cock-up that had to happen - Britain does fiascos well and by any measure, the opening of BA's £4.3bn Terminal 5 was a corker - 30th March 2008 If the City won't put its house in order, politicians must - 23rd March 2008 A deluded Wall Street threatens the world economy - Britain is much more vulnerable than even the Americans to the impact of falling house prices and contracting credit - 16th March 2008 Channel 4 must turn a crisis into a drama - As another great show arrives here, the malaise affecting British TV has never been more stark - 9th March 2008 Chastened, but still alive - All the major British banks have managed higher absolute profits and increased their dividends - but that doesn't mean we don't have a problem - guardian.co.- 3rd March 2008 You can tell a great university by the companies it keeps - Universities are pivotal to the economy and set to become more so. To forgo making money from research is to ignore that truth - 2nd March 2008 Let's demolish some of these myths about the City - Britain can choose to tax the worldwide income of its non-domiciled rich - 17th February 2008 This is Gordon Brown's mistake - The chancellor is taking the heat for a U-turn on tax-avoidance by non-doms: but it is the prime minister who should have resisted City bullying - guardian.co.uk - 13th February 2008 Why too much care for your child can harm society - 3rd February 2008 This reckless greed of the few harms the future of the many - The government must act firmly to control an industry that destabilises all our lives with its naked pursuit of huge profits - 27th January 2008 Come on, Mr Brown, stand up to the Chinese - 20th January 2008

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