Let’s start with conventional political theory. Since Machiavelli (1532) it’s been assumed that political leaders always seek to obtain and retain power, doing whatever necessary – including corrupt dealings with old school chums and ultra right wing coalition partners as you’ve done. This is erroneous. It is wrong because all the data runs in the opposite direction.

I’ve come to know the Germany behind the baggage having a daughter brought up in Berlin to my German ex-wife. The more the layers of German’s socio-economic model are uncovered, the more I marvel at the elegance of a model that we helped create after WWII but didn’t bother to use to improve our economic model. And we’ve forgotten what we already know: Adam Smith’s original ideal of a well functioning economy, where all prosper not just the few, gives clues to how to re-imagine it. Based on Adam

Electricity is making Dickensian Britain real again.