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This Time No Mistakes
- How to Remake Britain
- Narrated by: Alastair Campbell, Will Hutton
- Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
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Summary
'This Time No Mistakes is a brilliant book... an intellectual, historical, political read with some strong themes... read it if you haven’t already.' Keir Starmer
'Represents the beginning of a new, urgent debate. The era that defined economics since the end of the Cold War is now giving way to more activist governments and a very different kind of globalisation, necessitating new economic strategies. At last we are beginning to discuss what they might look like.' New Statesman
A book that could be a blueprint for a better future – if the Labour Party takes it seriously.
Will Hutton’s passionate book 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. We need an alternative economic and political philosophy, especially if we are to ward off a nihilist populism.
Two great traditions – ethical socialism and progressive liberalism – can be brought together to offer a different way forward. Hutton describes the views of their major thinkers, and their common vision of what he calls the ‘We Society’ – combining the ‘We’ and the ‘I’. The two strands of thought both believe in the duty to treat people fairly in a capitalist system that, without guiderails, spirals into inequality, monopoly and exploitation.
Out of this shared worldview came the great reforming Liberal government of 1906–14, supported by Labour MPs who’d been elected in industrial areas with Liberal backing. This alliance, Hutton argues, was the great opportunity of modern British history. It was destroyed by the First World War. In 1945 a Labour government, informed by great Liberal intellectuals like Keynes and Beveridge, showed once again what can be achieved when the two progressive strands fuse.
Since then, our deeply unfair electoral system has allowed Conservatives to dominate government and commit a long series of great, avoidable errors. The Labour Party, fatally divided between socialist purity and timid pragmatism, must rediscover the ingredients that made for the success of the great reforming governments of the twentieth century.
This failure to uphold the ‘We Society’ has betrayed Britain. Capitalism must be repurposed to work for the common good. And our degraded democracy, the necessary means for such change, must be reformed. Hutton’s proposals are inspiring and rooted in values held by the overwhelming majority of us. Above all, they are achievable.
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- Y
- 17-06-24
Spectacular
Sets out an optimistic future. Explains why we are where we now are. As humans floating on a tiny rock in an infinite ocean we have to work together and figure out what on earth we should do.
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- Mr. C. Thomas
- 24-05-24
What Labour needs to do - and why
Hutton’s analysis of what has held back Britain’s economy for over a century is absolutely spot-on.
Every UK voter should read this before casting their ballot.
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- victoria daines
- 18-10-24
Neo liberalism - eat your heart out
Hutton - was spot on in 1997 when he wrote The State We’re In.
This generation are privileged that he still has the energy and drive to write the sequel.
It is a must read for anyone who wants to understand how ‘Thatcherism’/Neo Liberalism sowed the seeds for the ‘87 crash, austerity, Brexit, and the vast disparities of wealth that the baby boom generation have created - the state we are now in. It, yet again, it shows us the way forward. This time we must follow his advice.
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- David Holliman
- 21-05-24
Very comprehensive account with great recommendations going forward
It’s a great read but much less a great listen. Will is not a great reader. He tends to gabble, with the result that there are passages that are very difficult to understand
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- Kevin Viney
- 26-05-24
How To Remake Britain indeed, thanks Will
This is a wonderful summary of everything that has gone wrong with the UK more or less since the Second World War.
So many messages about our failed voting system - FPTP must now be replaced by PR 🙏- the Conservatives disastrous recent policies especially around Brexit and Austerity economics are effectively addressed and utterly condemned and the roots of all our problems lying with Thatcherism is explained and highlighted brilliantly.
A must read for 2024 and for anyone still daft enough to be thinking of voting Conservative this is why that is such a catastrophically bad idea.
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- jmf9
- 30-05-24
Essential reading pre (or post) 2024 election
Excellent argument of what has gone wrong and how to fix it. Whether you’re right or left this is essential reading. This time we really must get it right (or correct) as the alternatives are not thinkable.
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- EDDIE MILLER
- 15-07-24
Nicely told albeit a tad one sided in parts
A very welcome listen that raises not only interesting points as well as factually accurate information, this book delivers the key messaging well. Slightly too one sided in parts which is interesting as it's very well balanced in others. Slightly more idealistic in mantra with some points of view, with a fascinating insight into the machine of governance with the monetary aspects covered. With the likley re-election of Trump in November 2024 (if he is still alive by then) the book makes accurate observations of the challenges that governments and world leaders will have, whilst reminding the people that it starts with them. Very much enjoyed and will be looking forward to the next book.
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- H Newsam
- 25-04-24
The most Important book you will read in 2024
What has gone wrong with the UK and how can it be fixed? Will Hutton explore this in an amazing book. He talks about how the UK must because the WE society where personal needs and wants are also in the context of the team work of society. It is a rightful repudiation of much of what has been done in the last 30 years. The Thatcher experiment of limited state and low taxes has been proven to be fake. We could have had a sovereign wealth fund like Norway but blew it all on the experiment of the 80’s. A must read before the 2024 election.
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- Paul J. Jackson
- 08-05-24
Essential reading for 2024
Will Hutton lays bare the mess we're in, how we got here and how we get out of it. His manifesto is far-reaching but necessary. Politicians need to be courageous enough to follow it.
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- Lynne Armstrong
- 08-07-24
Blueprint for a decent socirty
Keynesian economics, proportional representation, the We society, what Keir Starmer's government needs to do.
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