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False Economy – Why is Britain so unproductive?

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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Miranda Sawyer reviews the daily papers with a mixture of amazement, horror and sometimes admiration too. We look at the biggest and weirdest stories from the House of Commons to Love Island. Joining me today is Giles Wilkes, unresponsible for industrial strategy during the Theresa May era. Recently he wrote a post about what he's dubbed the Crud Economy - do we have to keep doing pointless, unproductive things or can we make our economy more useful?

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