The Observer’s blueprint for a better Britain in 2019 | Observer editorial

Five ideas within the grasp of any government to make the country a better, fairer place

Pessimism has been the defining political mood of 2018. Pessimism fuelled by fears that young people will be the first generation who find themselves worse off than their parents; that gaping regional inequalities are going to widen post-Brexit; that the world will be overtaken by catastrophic climate change; that we are on the brink of an overwhelming instability in the global order not seen since the cold war.

There are certainly reasons to be glum going into 2019. There is not only a growing sense that Britain will be at the mercy of powerful global forces it can do little about. Brexit looms on the horizon, a challenge entirely of our own making that threatens to ensure there is next to no political capacity left for anything else.

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