Karen’s Reviews > Britannia Unchained: Global Lessons for Growth and Prosperity > Status Update

“The bald fact is that the only successful approach to poor performance has turned out to be hard work”

“This lack of people with mid level qualifications in science and technology is a drag on the economy”

Chapter the revenge of the geeks addresses problem of UK falling PISA scores. “In modern culture of instant gratification students go for easier option”

Britain has not defaulted on its debt in modern times even coped with massive debts rising during war time therefore don’t understand “it turns out that a country’s budget is not so far away from a household budget”.

Unpick statement that figure of 5.7 million people in receipt of a benefit demonstrates that Britain has descended into a dependency culture

Weaponising work ethic is fostering fear

“The horror of the riots was an aberration “

Ch2 cherry picking countries to suit narrative in the first it was France now we are on to Canada. By the way what happened to the B in BRIC? Something to be said about examining all the history and reaching the right conclusions about what is driving future behaviour

Definitely setting up a certain narrative “the draining of effort from our National psyche has been replaced by a sense of entitlement “

“Britain once ruled the Empire on which the sun never set” is it not the nostalgia creep that is the problem in our national psyche?