This Time No Mistakes cover art

This Time No Mistakes

How to Remake Britain

 Preview
LIMITED TIME OFFER

3 months free
Try for £0.00
£8.99/mo thereafter. Renews automatically. Terms apply. Offer ends 31 July 2025 at 23:59 GMT.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for £8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.

This Time No Mistakes

By: Will Hutton
Narrated by: Agent Alastair Campbell, Will Hutton
Try for £0.00

£8.99/mo after 3 months. Offer ends 31 July 2025 23:59 GMT. Cancel monthly.

Buy Now for £14.99

Buy Now for £14.99

Confirm Purchase
Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.
Cancel

About this listen

 Bloomsbury presents This Time No Mistakes by Will Hutton, read by Will Hutton and Alastair Campbell.

'This Time No Mistakes is a brilliant book... an intellectual, historical, political read with some strong themes... read it if you haven’t already.' Keir Starmer

'Represents the beginning of a new, urgent debate. The era that defined economics since the end of the Cold War is now giving way to more activist governments and a very different kind of globalisation, necessitating new economic strategies. At last we are beginning to discuss what they might look like.' New Statesman

A book that could be a blueprint for a better future – if the Labour Party takes it seriously.

Will Hutton’s passionate book shows how the right and left have gone wrong over the course of the last century – and how we can remake a better Britain. Britain’s inability to invest in itself is at the heart of our problems. The malevolent thread linking the grievous errors of the last forty-five years is the attempt to create the utopia of free markets and a minimal state. The terrible consequences scar our country today. We need an alternative economic and political philosophy, especially if we are to ward off a nihilist populism.

Two great traditions – ethical socialism and progressive liberalism – can be brought together to offer a different way forward. Hutton describes the views of their major thinkers, and their common vision of what he calls the ‘We Society’ – combining the ‘We’ and the ‘I’. The two strands of thought both believe in the duty to treat people fairly in a capitalist system that, without guiderails, spirals into inequality, monopoly and exploitation.

Out of this shared worldview came the great reforming Liberal government of 1906–14, supported by Labour MPs who’d been elected in industrial areas with Liberal backing. This alliance, Hutton argues, was the great opportunity of modern British history. It was destroyed by the First World War. In 1945 a Labour government, informed by great Liberal intellectuals like Keynes and Beveridge, showed once again what can be achieved when the two progressive strands fuse.

Since then, our deeply unfair electoral system has allowed Conservatives to dominate government and commit a long series of great, avoidable errors. The Labour Party, fatally divided between socialist purity and timid pragmatism, must rediscover the ingredients that made for the success of the great reforming governments of the twentieth century.

This failure to uphold the ‘We Society’ has betrayed Britain. Capitalism must be repurposed to work for the common good. And our degraded democracy, the necessary means for such change, must be reformed. Hutton’s proposals are inspiring and rooted in values held by the overwhelming majority of us. Above all, they are achievable.©2024 Will Hutton (P)2024 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. Politics & Government Liberalism Socialism Capitalism Taxation Government Economic disparity Economic Inequality

Listeners also enjoyed...

 Great Britain? cover art
Four Chancellors and a Funeral cover art
Keir Starmer cover art
Taken as Red cover art
Strangeland cover art
Get In cover art
Out cover art
Vassal State cover art
No Way Out cover art
Turning Points cover art
Winston Churchill cover art
Depraved New World cover art
How to Run Britain cover art
Money, Lies, and God cover art
The Decade in Tory cover art
Follow the Money cover art
All stars
Most relevant  
Sets out an optimistic future. Explains why we are where we now are. As humans floating on a tiny rock in an infinite ocean we have to work together and figure out what on earth we should do.

Spectacular

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Mr Hutton's long familiarity with his themes is very clear as he incisive dissects the problems and recommends well argued solutions building a realisation visionbif the future Britain "could" have if it's leaders and citizens so chose. A fantastic listen.

Amazing scope and energy for change

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Hutton’s analysis of what has held back Britain’s economy for over a century is absolutely spot-on.
Every UK voter should read this before casting their ballot.

What Labour needs to do - and why

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Hutton - was spot on in 1997 when he wrote The State We’re In.
This generation are privileged that he still has the energy and drive to write the sequel.
It is a must read for anyone who wants to understand how ‘Thatcherism’/Neo Liberalism sowed the seeds for the ‘87 crash, austerity, Brexit, and the vast disparities of wealth that the baby boom generation have created - the state we are now in. It, yet again, it shows us the way forward. This time we must follow his advice.

Neo liberalism - eat your heart out

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
It’s a great read but much less a great listen. Will is not a great reader. He tends to gabble, with the result that there are passages that are very difficult to understand

Very comprehensive account with great recommendations going forward

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
This is a wonderful summary of everything that has gone wrong with the UK more or less since the Second World War.

So many messages about our failed voting system - FPTP must now be replaced by PR 🙏- the Conservatives disastrous recent policies especially around Brexit and Austerity economics are effectively addressed and utterly condemned and the roots of all our problems lying with Thatcherism is explained and highlighted brilliantly.

A must read for 2024 and for anyone still daft enough to be thinking of voting Conservative this is why that is such a catastrophically bad idea.

How To Remake Britain indeed, thanks Will

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Excellent argument of what has gone wrong and how to fix it. Whether you’re right or left this is essential reading. This time we really must get it right (or correct) as the alternatives are not thinkable.

Essential reading pre (or post) 2024 election

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
A very welcome listen that raises not only interesting points as well as factually accurate information, this book delivers the key messaging well. Slightly too one sided in parts which is interesting as it's very well balanced in others. Slightly more idealistic in mantra with some points of view, with a fascinating insight into the machine of governance with the monetary aspects covered. With the likley re-election of Trump in November 2024 (if he is still alive by then) the book makes accurate observations of the challenges that governments and world leaders will have, whilst reminding the people that it starts with them. Very much enjoyed and will be looking forward to the next book.

Nicely told albeit a tad one sided in parts

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
What has gone wrong with the UK and how can it be fixed? Will Hutton explore this in an amazing book. He talks about how the UK must because the WE society where personal needs and wants are also in the context of the team work of society. It is a rightful repudiation of much of what has been done in the last 30 years. The Thatcher experiment of limited state and low taxes has been proven to be fake. We could have had a sovereign wealth fund like Norway but blew it all on the experiment of the 80’s. A must read before the 2024 election.

The most Important book you will read in 2024

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Will Hutton lays bare the mess we're in, how we got here and how we get out of it. His manifesto is far-reaching but necessary. Politicians need to be courageous enough to follow it.

Essential reading for 2024

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews