Confronting an unequal world - Real action needed on a real crisis

EXPRESSING concern about growing, dangerous inequality has become fashionable. 

Expressing heartfelt concern about the ever narrower concentration of power-bestowing wealth and the reduced circumstances facing millions upon millions of workers in jobs once imagined enviable seems to be the new black.

Unfortunately, as on so many of the issues defining our future, talk is as cheap as migrant labour and remains a pathetic substitute for decisive, field-levelling action.