Why ideas of ending poverty are stuck in the realm of fantasy
antasy took me over last week when I spoke at a conference on future generations. Of late I had been dipping into the Victorian socialist William Morris’s book. He imagines himself in the waning days of the 19th century falling asleep after a heavy debate at the Socialist Club and waking in the morning to find all the world’s troubles had been shrugged off. Gone was the increasing despoliation of man and nature by industry. Now London was a melting