The FT has a timely piece on the supposed ‘anglo saxon model’. Stereotypes are just that, stereotypes, and more often than not they obscure more than they illuminate:
“Britain’s “Anglo-Saxon model” is believed to have produced filthy hospitals, long queues, a collapsing pension system and draconian welfare-to-work programmes that produce high levels of poverty and inequality.
The truth is more nuanced“.
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