Surviving the Three-Day Week: We Must Accept Our Own Responsibility for the Future

Women in the office of a duvet manufacturing firm use quilts to keep themselves warm while they workPhotograph: Evening Standard/Getty As a child growing up in the early 1970s, I enjoyed the bold fashions and vibrant music; the flamboyant footie and fabulous TV. But I was also aware that the United Kingdom had been laid low. The news was filled with pay disputes and poor inflation figures; with…