What we learned this week

Geoff Mulgan in Prospect magazine writes about ‘the billionaire problem’, plutocracy, and the “extraordinary mismatch between billionaires’ pools of enormous wealth and the innumerable tasks in the world that require money.”

With 68% of buildings damaged, Gaza has now eclipsed WWII’s bombing of Dresden and Cologne to become one of the heaviest non-nuclear bombardments in history, says the FT.

Britain’s last opencast coal mine has closed. Now we wait to see if the company running it will fu...