This time no mistakes

Join us for this talk by Will Hutton about his new book, This Time No Mistakes in which he shows how the right and left have gone wrong over the course of the last century – and how we can remake a better Britain.

Britain’s inability to invest in itself is at the heart of our problems. The malevolent thread linking the grievous errors of the last forty-five years is the attempt to create the utopia of free markets and a minimal state. The terrible consequences scar our country today. Hutton argues we need an alternative economic and political philosophy, especially if we are to ward off a nihilist populism.

Meet our speaker and chair

Will Hutton (@williamnhutton) is a political economist, journalist, and bestselling author. He is an associate of the Oxford University Martin School and writes a fortnightly column for the Observer. His new book is This Time No Mistakes.

Abby Innes (@innes_abby) is Associate Professor of Political Economy in the European Institute at LSE. She is the author of Czechoslovakia: The Short Goodbye and Late Soviet Britain: Why Materialist Utopias Fail. She has published widely on issues of party-state development and state capture in Central Europe, and, more recently, on the political economy of the neoliberal state in the UK.

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