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Will Hutton
Will Hutton writes for the Observer, is principal of Hertford College, Oxford, and co-chair of the Purposeful Company
- Emily Maitlis's 'sin' was being compared with real, deliberate assaults on truthThe BBC was cowed into disciplining her by a bullying government which doesn’t want us to know the truth
- An open letter: why we need a National Youth CorpsA government-sponsored work programme is young Britons’ best hope of a future
- The looming economic disaster will only get worse if those leading us stick to dogmaConservatives must understand that the country they rule is not exceptional
- Young Britons have been hit hard. We owe them a future they can believe inAny post-coronavirus economy we build must ensure that there is no disadvantage to being aged under 35
- Trust is essential in these times. But Boris Johnson is not a man to be trustedThe prime minister has shown a woeful lack of responsibility as the Covid-19 pandemic has escalated
- Rishi Sunak has given us wartime finance fit for wartime economic conditionsRishi Sunak’s coronavirus rescue package is crucial for a collapsing economy. Social partnership is back
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- Johnson’s Brexit flunkey sums up all that’s wrong with his master’s trade fantasiesDavid Frost should drag himself out of the 18th century and address our perilous future
- The BBC is a pillar of civilisation. No wonder populists want to destroy itEnlightenment values are anathema to parties that only thrive amid widespread ignorance
- Remainers aren’t going to vanish on 31 January. We fight on, sure of our causeOn 31 January we leave Europe but, fear not, our connections are deep and lasting
- ‘Neoliberal’ is an unthinking leftist insult. All it does is stifle debateLabour’s endless squabbles over ‘purity’ risk another 10 years of Tory dominance
- Paul Volcker obituaryChairman of the US Federal Reserve Board in the 1980s who saw off inflation and later criticised financial deregulation
- Unions colluded in the fiction that Corbyn’s plan was going to win powerIf the party is going to survive it must pursue a broad coalition, not a socialist utopia
- Tactical voting helped rescue Britain in 1997. We can do it againA hung parliament represents our best chance of halting Britain’s steep decline
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