Excellent piece from Kenan Malik about the necessity - and challenge - of rebuilding the countervailing power of labour to build a ‘good work’ economy - or what I call in #TheInequalityOfWealth , ‘civic capitalism’ 👇

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Kristalina Georgieva 8/. As we once used to sing!

Here’s the Substack

open.substack.com/pub/liambyrnem…

Kristalina Georgieva 7/. So: there’s a bold green/ digital/ story for Labour to weave from the huge new trends reshaping the world. We should get on with it.

6/. Yet the future is going to be extraordinary. H/t Kristalina Georgieva

5/. People sense that power has tipped radically to the top 1% - while they’ve lost out agency and control, opportunities and options.

4/. You can’t blame people - while some have done royally well, most others are having a terrible time.

3/. What I’ve found is that people feel we confront ‘the three impossibles’.

2/. Right now, optimism is in the tank. Amongst many, it’s as bad as it was during Covid. But pessimists don’t make good electoral choices.

1/. My new piece looks at why Labour should - and must - tell a bold & optimistic story about Britain’s future. Rather as Keynes once urged us…

Here the quick link: open.substack.com/pub/liambyrnem…

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Reform of the laws that bite on private creditors in London & New York could hugely help us tackle the global debt crisis that condemns millions to poverty

My piece for Devex with Gustavo Rivera on why we must act now - and how

devex.com/news/opinion-u…

Gustavo Rivera…