The major economic challenges confronting humanity — including the chronic and acute polarisation of wealth — are global in character, just as the major environmental issues. However, nations are too reticent to establish effective global governance to deal with them. All the signs are that Andy Burnham will take quite the opposite approach, with his emphasis on regional devolution within the United Kingdom. This is why it is so important to build awareness and debate on the merits and methodology of a global approach to egalitarian capitalism. Background music: 'The Plan's Working' by Cooper Cannell

Published: Mon 6 July 2026