Two challenges to inequality: Revalidate society or face chaos

The protesters — around 1,000 — who blocked Dublin streets on Wednesday evening over the repossession of a property on Tuesday may not have realised it but earlier that day one of the cornerstone figures of the British establishment made a powerful, uncompromising speech attacking some of the issues fuelling the housing crisis.

Speaking at the TUC conference, the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby declared that the gig economy and zero hours contracts are the “reincarnation of an ancient evil”.