for those who think differently…
A control freak in the house? Daniel Margrain asks if May’s sense of her apparent entitlement to rule indefinitely has become a feature of her style of leadership, apparently enabling her to cling to power.
The Tory exchequer has roughly four times as much money at its disposal as it did six decades ago. Yet, Britain’s richest 1% has as much wealth as the poorest 57% combined. When Theresa May says capitalism is the “greatest agent of collective human progress ever created”, what she really means is that it is the best model through which her class is able to financially enrich themselves by manipulating the institutions of society.
Is “Trickle-Down” prosperity the greatest lie ever told?
Tarek El Diwany on the flawed concept of trickle-down economics.