End Dickensian worker exploitation

The election of Donald Trump, Brexit, the rise of Marine Le Pen, and, maybe to a lesser degree, the fragmentation of the Dáil, are all a consequence of so many workers believing that the system they had supported all of their working lives has betrayed them.

Stagnating if not declining wages, the loss of job security and pensions, the loss of workplace protections decades in the making, reduced public services, and young workers forced to leave the towns or cities of their birth because they had been priced out of the housing market, all combined to drive this shift to extremes.

As Ryanair — and its stranded passengers — are discovering, even hugely