Every compass of socioeconomic prognostication needs its butt end, determinedly pointing in the wrong direction.
Globalisation is here to stay, says Davos boss
It was nice while we had it, that globalisation. Dragged a full third of humanity up out of historic poverty and destitution. But we’ll have to accept, on this evidence, that it’s dead and gone now.
Everybody uses that word, but they don’t all mean the same thing.