Labour’s pre-election Budget

Many British politicians like to think of history in terms of seismic shifts; that the past is a succession of epistemic breaks, of ruptures in what economic historians now call “growth models”. In this telling, 1945 was the birth of postwar socialism, 1979 the beginning of neoliberal revival, 2008 the end of a long, doomed experiment in financial globalization. Andy Burnham is a man who thinks…