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Each week we reflect on key issues, drawn from a wide range of areas: economics, politics, the environment, matters of physical and/or spiritual life, and, often, the search for a more egalitarian form of capitalism — including opportunities for young people from all…
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Thought for the Week: Bond markets — how did we get in this mess? (opens the original)
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The origins of the looming crisis in world government bond markets started forty years ago; recent challenges such as the pandemic and Trump have turned the screw even harder, and in the United Kindom the dogged application of universal welfare certainly hasn't helped. But the current problem of over-indebtedness can be traced back to the 1980s and the introduction of dual capacity in financial markets. This gave rise to the 2008 financial crisis, and the acceptance by governments of their role
Thought for the Week: Resolving democracy's shortcomings (opens the original)
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MPs, led by Alex Sobel, are calling for a national commission to prepare proposals for electoral reform; their talk is about some form of proportional representation. But democracy is faced with much bigger challenges, including short-termism, generational unfairness, and a serious lack of any global integration. Winston Churchill was right about democracy being the least worst system of government, but there are initiatives that we should take to resolve these three major challenges. Let's hope
Thought for the Week: Preparing for a first Budget (opens the original)
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With the summer holidays drawing to a close in the next few days, the new team at HM Treasury will be busy looking at fresh ideas for the Budget on 28th October. The challenging economic situation calls for a fresh look at some of the underlying strategies which have driven debt so high over the past half-century. The really big problem is the extent to which 'universal, free-at-the-point-use' health care has caused deep generational unfairness; that, combined with the triple lock and unfunded s
Thought for the Week: Stand by for desalination (opens the original)
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Months of drought are gradually waking us up to the fact that climate change really is a serious concern: if we're not going to stop it, then we have to take mitigation action seriously. Fresh water is our most critical natural resource: the only alternative to rainfall is desalination. Thames Water was ahead of its time with installing their Beckton plant for London in 2011, but politicians must now accept that the era of treating fresh water as an unlimited resource is over and new strategies
Thought for the Week: Why we should be concerned about illiteracy (opens the original)
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Literacy rates for young people have improved significantly over the past fifteen years following Tony Blair's call for 'Education, Education, Education'; with technical development now rising in importance, we must ensure that it holds onto the priority attached to literacy. Meanwhile Government departments, including HMRC, must ensure that their communication is accessible to all — this includes the initiative to write to young adults at 21 to tell them about their Child Trust Funds. Backgroun
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