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Britain is trapped in a Boomerocracy

20 February 2022

8:30 PM

20 February 2022

8:30 PM

‘If the young knew what was good for them’ the historian Niall Ferguson once remarked, ‘they’d join the Tea party’. In his first Reith Lecture, Ferguson argued that austerity would be a boon for the young; public debt merely allowed ‘the current generation of voters to live at the expense of those as yet too young to vote or as yet unborn.

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