I WAS both impressed and bewildered by the speech of the Prime Minister in the United States. Impressed by the fact that he is a man of letters, erudite and clear. Bewildered by his description, in part correct, that the United States is the singular power to guarantee an “international rules based order”.
This was just after Oxfam, among others, had published statistics that noted 1 per centof the world’s population owned over 50 per cent of the world’s wealth. Elsewhere, one newsfeed had 62 people controlling over half the world’s wealth!!
And that the gap between the rich and poor was skewed and increasing. Where are the rules in this perverse statistic and daily reality?