The astute reader will detect from this article’s highly intemperate tone that it is one written more in anger and in sorrow. Why is it that free trade cheerleaders like the Economist correctly identify the underlying cause of today’s economic and social malaise i.e. globalisation, whereas the left just scratches round the local policy farmyard kicking up the dust of domestic politics – slow the speed of cuts, fairer taxes versus bank and business relocation, can Ed speak human? etc etc