things will have to change

The secretary-general of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ), a research and policy organisation that works on behalf of the world’s richest countries, has compared the prevailing elite posture to that of the fictional 19th-century Italian aristocrat Tancredi Falconeri, from Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s novel The Leopard, who declares: “ If we want things to stay…