Pain without gain: the truth about austerity | Phillip Inman

The Conservative project has left productivity and prosperity in tatters while plunging us into ever more debt

There are few people in the developed world who still cling to the maxim that "home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt".

These days we can't afford to take the same view as Helmer, the husband in Ibsen's A Doll's House, one of literature's most cautious budgeters.