The Guardian: how 'ideas wreckers' turned The Spirit Level into a political punchbagSubmitted by Kathryn Busby on 14 August 2010 Read Robert Booth's article on recent attacks on The Spirit Level. And Letters to the Editor written in response.
Cameron quoted the book in a pre-election address envisioning the "big society", the former Labour foreign secretary Jack Straw took it on holiday and Michael Gove, the education secretary, said it was "a fantastic analysis". For a book which concludes that either taxes must rise on the rich or their incomes must fall to increase equality, it was an astonishing level of cross-party support. But this summer, something has snapped and if The Spirit Level were a punchbag, the stuffing would be coming out at the seams. A posse of rightwing institutes has laid into the work with a wave of brutal attacks. |
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