Will Hutton
Columnist at The Guardian
Political economist, author, Observer columnist, President of the Academy of Social Sciences and host of the We Society podcast. All views are my own!
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1 week ago |
observer.co.uk | Will Hutton
When the US economy falters, ours follows. It’s time to stop tripping over Trump’s coat-tails Reactions to Keir Starmer’s modest “reset” of UK-EU relations last week in the rightwing press took hyperbole into new realms of the absurd. It was a “surrender” in which we could “kiss goodbye to Brexit”.
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2 weeks ago |
observer.co.uk | Will Hutton
The US boasts all the world’s $1tn hi-tech companies, each backed by VC. Britain could do the same Britain is sitting upon the alchemist’s growth stone, but doesn’t realise it. The industry of venture capital (VC) is committed to identifying ambitious young companies with the ideas, mission and capacity to grow. It gets behind them not only with successive rounds of funding, but crucially closely engages with them across the gamut of challenges.
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3 weeks ago |
observer.co.uk | Will Hutton
Reform is a joke party with joke policies, joke values and a consummate joker as its leader. If it ever won national power planning to implement even part of what it is promising, there would be a collapse in business and financial confidence with devastating economic consequences. Yet, terrifyingly for British politics, it has struck such a chord with a strand of the electorate that it was the decisive winner in the May mayoral, local council and Runcorn byelections.
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1 month ago |
lse.ac.uk | Will Hutton |Robert Kuttner
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1 month ago |
observer.co.uk | Will Hutton
From child poverty, to unemployment among young people, to a lack of skills or training, the trends are deeply alarming Britain’s neglect of its children is a disgrace – a crisis for too many of our kids but also a condemnation of the absence of a rallying national purpose.
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Lots of people have been in touch - even in the local Coop - telling me how interesting and passionate they found Gavin Kelly on the impending crisis of economic inactivity. And in particular its impact on health and mental health. A call to arms!
Looking for something to listen to this bank holiday? ICYMI: in ep. 1 of the new season of the We Society podcast, @williamnhutton is joined by @GavinJKelly1, CEO of @NuffieldFound, to discuss potential solutions to the UK’s economic inactivity crisis. 👂https://t.co/h9N6IcTEZm https://t.co/Ac3rZpdiD7
A great, dignified, pitch- perfect, good-bye this evening to the one and only Gary Lineker - beloved by the MOTD audience, football and so many beyond. Above all a really decent human-being.
Please read .. a really powerful piece and an indictment of Trump’s attitude to universities. https://t.co/a3PahkssgP
