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Will Hutton works from London. Political economist and writer Will Hutton has over 40791 followers on Twitter.

The battle for the future of capitalism

Mitt Romney embodies a system dominated by financial engineering that uses companies as casino chips.

Bail-out won’t fix the fiasco

The injection of £37-billion of taxpayer money into the capital base of three UK banks is the gravest event in the modern financial history of the UK.

Without real leadership, we face financial disaster

A lethal new threat is emerging at the dark heart of the financial system, writes Will Hutton.

The UKs bail-out plan may just be the remedy to quell the bad news in economic headlines. AP

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.

Quake response won’t cover cracks of corruption

Earthquake’s don’t destroy strong, well-built buildings. They destroy weak ones. As China reels from its biggest earthquake in 30 years, public anger is mounting. The danger for…

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…

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…

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…

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…