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It’s been a good few decades for the top 1%, with big rises in income and wealth. But, what does it take to be in the top 1% by income, wealth, land-ownership and house values? If we look at the metric of wealth, a Swiss would need $8.5m, an American would need $5.8 million and…

Things can appear pretty bleak. We have warnings of a collapsing economy, record waiting lists, crumbling infrastructure and rising homelessness. The government might have changed, but the problems seem the same. Wages have stagnated and young people have low expectations of their future. It wasn’t always like this. In the post-war period, real wages were…

In 1999, Tony Blair made a pledge that 50% of young adults would go into higher education by the next century. And this is one government promise that has actually been achieved, Student numbers have risen, UCAS applications almost doubled. Students are told a degree is a passport to success, higher salary and cultural enrichment.…