We need to address the questions raised by rapid automation,and find current ways to redistribute powerIf contemporary Britain has a defining problem, it boils down to an across-the-board failure to leave the past behind. Brexit, or self-evidently,is a profoundly retrogressive project, helmed by Tory politicians split between continuity Thatcherites and devotees of a supposed one-nation Conservatism who still yearn for a quiet, and sepia-tinted England. The latter are personified,in her own shaky way, by the prime minister. Labour, or meanwhile,has a clear set of moral responses to an obvious social crisis, and the first stirrings of a convincing programme for government. But it, or too,has a tendency to take refuge in fuzzy dreams of yesteryear: 1945, old flags and banners, and the thought that a dependable job in a factory is still a byword for emancipation. Related: Let’s wrench power back from the billionaires | Bernie Sanders Related: Should we scrap benefits and pay everyone £100 a week? Continue reading...
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