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The battle for Britain’s story

December 26, 2015 By Useful Ideas Project Leave a Comment

There is no alternative (TINA) a slogan used by Margaret Thatcher to signify that the market economy is the only system that works.

The story: An experiment in inequality that became an accepted version of events. Britain, over the last 37 years, has been the subject of "the most amazingly interesting natural experiment... Some country had to go and do the thing of saying 'what happens if we go from being one of the most equal countries to the most unequal country in Europe'" according to Danny Dorling, … [Read more...] about The battle for Britain’s story

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