Will Hutton
Will Hutton works from London. Political economist and writer Will Hutton has over 40791 followers on Twitter.
Biting the bullet
/ 12 October 2008

Biting the bullet

Bold, comprehensive and at times surprising, the UK’s bail-out plan for partial nationalisation is just what the system needed, writes Will Hutton.

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/ 12 February 2008

Not biting the bullet

‘Get out of here. You are not one of us. You do not understand our culture,” said the angry man while pointing his firearm at Roy Naicker, who was sitting in his car. The gunman pulled the trigger, the gun clicked, but no bullet emerged. Naicker escaped harm. This was his welcome as the new principal of Nonhlevu Secondary School in Groutville on the north coast of KwaZulu-Natal in January 1999

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/ 27 August 2007

Curb the greedy global financiers

One of the most inequitable and amoral acts in modern times is happening in front of our eyes and there is hardly a murmur of protest. The multibillion-dollar bail-out of global finance after one of the most reckless periods of lending and deal-making since the late 1920s is extraordinarily one-sided.

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/ 14 November 2003

American follies

Few people outside the United States understand the revolutionary nature of American conservatism and the profundity of its ambitions. Nobel Prize-winner Joseph Stiglitz’s careful dissection of the follies of the "roaring Nineties" and the conservative thinking that produced them — penetrating the Clinton administration — is as good as it gets, writes Will Hutton.

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/ 25 May 2003

The shaming tragedy of Africa

It is the continent with 12% of the world’s population but with 80% of the world’s Aids deaths. It has experienced 30 years of economic stagnation. Its murderous wars and genocides seem never-ending; on average, 200 000 die every year. Unemployment varies between 30% and 70%. Its corruption is endemic. It is Africa.