There are alternatives to capitalism. We just need the political will | Letters

Will Hutton's brave and visionary ideas for reforming British capitalism should be condensed into a terse popular narrative and incorporated into a widely disseminated pre-election "manifesto" (British capitalism is broken. Here's how to fix it, 11 February). As he says: "The current national conversation is hardly conducive to these ideas". What about crowd-funded one-page presentations in the national press and social media? It would surely be signed by a long list of respected national figures - not only economists.

The distorted imperative of deficit reduction has imposed a straitjacket of negativity around the national conversation