Lateral Economics Required...
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I am angrier and more aggressively political now, at sixty-eight, than I have ever been at any other stage of my life. The old truisms relating to age and increasing conservatism certainly don't apply in my case, and I suspect also not in those of a significant number of my generation. Whilst the hippie capitalists who emerged from the 'sixties with their silver spoons now turned to class A consumption rather than elocution, have become masters of the financial universe, those of us from humbler, and probably more radical backgrounds, have continued to rail against the world and all its injustices. Of course, the post-war world of my growing up was an entirely different place, marked, for the most part, not by the fairytale world of 'Swinging London', but a greyer one of austerity and shortage, alleviated for the majority of us only by the creation of the Welfare State. For this very brief period in our history, there was a chink of light at the end of the very long and