The tribal grunts of left and right will not rescue us | Simon Jenkins

From the gulf between rich and poor, to welfare reform, old arguments are failing to find answers for a world in flux

Politics has never been so fascinating. It drips from the ceiling. It oozes up through the floor. It reeks across the internet. Reading politics, being informed about it, participating in it, should be the compulsory national service of the 21st-century state. Yet never can the toolkit of political debate have been so empty and the task of understanding the world so titanic.

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