Aditya Chakrabortty



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Education: St Hugh's college, Oxford: Modern History

Career: BBC: five years as economics producer (working with economics editor Evan Davis); senior producer on the Ten o'clock News, Newsnight

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 * also writes/written for: The Telegraph, Financial Times, FT Magazine and New Statesman

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Awards/Honours: Series of reports from China for the BBC won a Harold Wincott award in 2006

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Speaking/Appearances: 18th June 2013: Meet Polly Toynbee and Aditya Chakrabortty for a coffee on Tuesday. If you'd like to talk to our columnists face to face, here's a chance to do so at our new coffee shop in east London.

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 * Looking for a party funding scandal? Try David Cameron's Conservatives - We know how much Unite gives Labour, but finding out who writes the cheques for Conservative Central Office is more difficult - 9th July 2013
 * Mark Carney is hailed as a saviour – but what do we really know about him? - The new Bank of England governor's CV contains details that should give one pause – such as that decade spent in the Goldman Sachs shark pool - 2nd July
 * Don't be fooled by Richard Branson's defence of Virgin trains - Richard Branson didn't like my column about his rail company – but he can't deny that taxpayers are piling up debts to subsidise his profits - 25th June 2013
 * Borisstan: the independent city state and docking station for global wealth formerly known as London - What would the British capital look like in the future if it broke away from the rest of the country? - 18th June 2013
 * The truth about Richard Branson's Virgin Rail profits - I once called Richard Branson a carpetbagger. A new report reveals that I was correct to say he built his business empire with millions from the taxpayers – only it's worse than I thought - 11th June 2013
 * Talk of recovery in Greece is premature – and all about justifying austerity - Bank bosses and politicians are trying to convince the world that Greece is on the mend – but this boosterism is all about justifying the shock therapy imposed on the eurozone - 4th June 2013
 * Swedish riots: if instability can happen here, what might unfold elsewhere? - a stark rise in inequality has brought about unprecedented rioting in Stockholm. The omens for Britain are worrying - 28th May 2013
 * The Great Gatsby's world is every bit as unequal as Britain under the coalition - The wealthy in America and Britain no longer resemble the prewar elite, but appearances cannot mask how cut off they are from the rest of us - 21st May 2013
 * The elite boast of little sleep, but it's those at the bottom who really suffer - Sleep proves how inequality touches even our most intimate lives – just ask those who toil for low pay with inadequate rest - 6th May 2013
 * What links the MMR scare and austerity? - Both sagas have their roots in dodgy academic papers, the agenda-pushing press and politicians – and willing believers - 30th April 2013
 * Young appmakers can't count on a job for life - Brits force-fed the language of enterprise and no-jobs-for-life are now putting it into practice and getting precisely nowhere - 23rd April 2013
 * Underemployment can be as corrosive as unemployment – and it's on the rise - Lots of people are wondering why the employment figures aren't worse, since we're in such a slump. Well, if you measure them properly, they are - 16th April 2013
 * The Lloyds workers are paying for their bosses' catastrophe - Average Lloyds employees face hardship and redundancy. Meanwhile, those that led them into this mess are thriving - 9th April 2013
 * David Miliband and the debasement of British politics - Our MPs are increasingly remote from the voters – Westminster has become the equivalent of a gap year for middle-aged overachievers - 2nd April 2013
 * George Osborne is using Britons as economic cannon fodder - This is a dangerous time to push the property market. The chancellor won't invest – yet he's happy for us to - 26th March 2013
 * The Cyprus eurozone bailout conditions are bank robbery pure and simple - This is yet another euro bailout that punishes ordinary people to prop up a bust financial system. How long can the euro last now? - 19th March 2013
 * A short history of austerity: it almost never works - You have to be one of Vince Cable's 'austerity jihadists' to believe you can cut your way out of a slump - 12th March 2013
 * Britain's shrinking economy: why the level of debate is farcical - Armando Iannucci's 'paper houses' comedy sketch offers a great insight into Britain's economic crisis - 29th January 2013
 * An action-packed thriller is about to unfold in Davos, Switzerland - In secret meetings in tiny rooms, the rich plot to get even richer - 22nd January 2013
 * To understand the deepening mess we are in now, it's worth looking to the words of a Polish economist in 1944 - This assault on an entire social contract is what Michał Kalecki warned about - 15th January 2013
 * The Welfare State, 1942-2013, obituary - After decades of public illness, Beveridge's most famous offspring has died - 8th january 2013
 * There's more to this new Arthur Scargill chic than mere fashion nostalgia - The high-street retailer's new collection of clothes dedicated to the former miners' leader reminds us of times when workers were taken more seriously - 11th December 2012
 * George Osborne's growth plan relies on us accruing even more debt - For all their promises of a new economic model, Britain's politicians on both sides remain stuck on the old debt-fuelled system - 4th December 2012
 * Big business has corrupted economics - You know the country is in a financial mess when even establishment figures such as Rachel Lomax are calling for revolutionary thinking - 27th November 2012
 * Why David Cameron is doing business with India's 'modern-day Nero' - Britain has boycotted Narendra Modi for years – but now the government has brought him in from the cold - 20th November 2012
 * America on the edge of a 'fiscal cliff'? No, it's the right peddling scare stories - The economic abyss is a distortion peddled by the US right and Obama's Democrats – just like Britain's left – need to counter the myth - 13th November 2012
 * America has supersized inequality. Political gridlock was bound to follow - US voters are split along an ever-widening faultline of wealth and poverty, so it's no wonder there's little hope of moderation in politics - 6th November 2012
 * The graph that shows how far David Cameron wants to shrink the state - If the Tories get their way, within five years the UK will have a smaller public sector than any major developed nation - 16th October 2012
 * From New Delhi to Westminster, governments are cavalier about the poor - But the truth is that they should be listening to them instead - 9th October 2012
 * Innovation – who would dare oppose it? - Growth-hungry Britain prizes innovation. But how do colossal TVs or self-sorting smart socks boost our standard of living? - 2nd October 2012
 * Justice and security bill: this is a dangerous, spurious law - Liberal Democrats at their conference must vote to reject the shameful, self-serving, spook-authored bill - 24th September 2012
 * Occupy is one year old. The critics are wrong to say there's little to celebrate - Occupy might not have the high-profile presence it did a year ago, but it would be wrong to dismiss its continuing relevance - 18th September 2012
 * The Thick of It? What George Osborne is doing is beyond satire - When I think of what the Treasury has been up to, the daily unravelling at DoSAC looks like an exercise in political mastery - 11th September 2012
 * Meet Wealth-Creator™ – a new superhero for these recessionary times – here to save us from sticky red tape - Except that these are not wealth creators at all. They're wealth extractors – shaking down their businesses or investments for money, without even risking much of their own cash - 4th September 2012
 * Why Osborne should pay heed to our Olympics triumph - If we ran Olympic sport in the same way we ran the economy, our athletes would be running races in their socks - 21st August 2012
 * What the Olympics opening ceremony tells us about our economy - You may have thought it was just a brilliant and bonkers portrait of Britain's history - but was it actually about a country coming to terms with its own decline? - 31st July 2012
 * Ten years of austerity? Only the British would meet that with barely a murmur - We appear to accept a decade of national privation, but there's no reason this unprecedented schedule of pain should be taken as inevitable - 24th July 2012
 * Ed Miliband is a great middle-class activist. But a prime minister? - As Labour leader, he makes a very fine boss of an NGO - 17th July 2012
 * The wrecking of Barclays is organised looting by those at the very top - The way Barclays has been debased to enrich a few hundred of its elite employees is also the story of Britain in recent decades - 10th July 2012
 * Barclays Libor scandal: how can we change banking culture? - They've taken hundreds of billions of taxpayers' money in bailouts – and still they can't resist ripping us off. What – if anything – can be done about it? - 3rd July 2012
 * The Shard is the perfect metaphor for modern London - Expensive, off-limits and owned by foreign investors – the Shard extends the ways in which London is becoming more unequal - 26th June 2012
 * Can Mervyn King save the British economy? - The Bank of England governor is probably the man most responsible for getting Britain out of recession. So can he do it? - 19th June 2012
 * The euro crisis is happening in Britain too - Areas of Britain are suffering just like Spain – to get an idea, visit Kirkby in Merseyside - 12th June 2012
 * Give these overpaid CEOs asbos (that's Antisocial Business Orders) - They give their advice on how to run the country, yet, with their huge pay packages and 'efficient' tax affairs, they're increasingly remote from the rest of us - 29th May 2012
 * The austerity deniers want to get us out of this crisis by hacking at the poor and vulnerable - The everything-must-go brigade discuss workers' rights with all the suspicion of an 11-year-old ordering frogs' legs - 22nd May 2012
 * Is the single currency worth saving at all? - Eurozone officials must have guessed at the upheaval and social unrest caused by their austerity measures – and imposed them anyway - 15th May 2012
 * Angry academics can't answer my criticism that there's too little analysis of our current crisis - Discussion of the economic crisis must be made democratic – and economists have a role to play in that - 8th May 2012
 * No, Boris – spending more on London won't fix the country's economic woes - London gets the lion's share of taxpayer money for health, housing and transport. Now Boris wants to blow more on the capital. But his argument is flatly wrong - 1st May 2012
 * Apple: why doesn't it employ more US workers? - The electronics giant assembles its gadgets in China. But, according to new research, if it moved its production home, it would still be hugely profitable and create thousands of jobs - 24th April 2012
 * Economics has failed us: but where are the fresh voices? - Mainstream economic models have been discredited. But why aren't political scientists and sociologists offering an alternative view? - 17th April 2012
 * Why are English and American novels today so gutless? - The great Bengali thinker Rabindranath Tagore, born 150 years ago, was a passionate political author. Sadly, literary writers today seem to have no time for politics - 10th April 2012
 * Why do bankers get to decide who pays for the mess Europe is in? - There were summits about how much misery would be imposed on the Greeks – and no trade unions got a say - 3rd April 2012
 * How we fell out of love with Keynes - The same intellectual retreat can be seen all over the western world and it shows that noble intentions and half-decent ideas don't get you very far - 27th March 2012
 * Privatising our roads will be a terrible deal – just as it was for the telecoms and water industries - Report after report shows that the myth of greater private-sector efficiency in doing public works is just that: a myth - 20th March 2012
 * David Cameron's cuts make the UK more lopsided - Since they moved into Downing Street, David Cameron and George Osborne have managed to hack the public sector to its smallest since the summer of 2003 - 15th March 2012
 * Gordon Brown did not save the world but he saved the UK - When the moment of maximum danger came, Brown had the right diagnosis and did largely the right things - 7th February 2012
 * Who came up with the model for excessive pay? No, it wasn't the bankers – it was academics - All the focus has been on bankers' bonuses, yet no one has looked at the economists who argued for rewarding bosses by giving them a bigger financial stake in their companies - 31st January 2012
 * The payout to the boss of RBS is a disastrous deal for the taxpayer - Ministers could act over Stephen Hester, the most lavishly rewarded public servant of all – but will they? - 24th January 2012
 * Time to take control of the credit rating agencies - Credit rating agencies keep getting it wrong but still make billions. Why don't politicians stand up to them? - 17th January 2012
 * It's time to cancel unpayable old debts - Economic history is full of examples of successful debt default – so let's make 2012 a default jubilee for have-nots - 10th January 2012
 * The euro crisis deepens - Every week brought more dire forecasts in the battle to save Europe's economic club. But 2012 will be its worst year yet - 27th December 2011
 * How British workers are losing the power to think - As consumers, Britons are more powerful than ever before – but at work we are losing our autonomy - 20th December 2011
 * I love Come Dine With Me's cheap sugar highs - The simple pleasures of Come Dine With Me may leave you feeling a bit sick, but they taste all right going down - 15th December 2011
 * Britain is ruled by the banks, for the banks - Is David Cameron's kid-glove treatment of the City remotely justified, when it neither pays its way nor lends effectively? - 13 December 2011
 * How will Britain cope with its lost decade? Take a look at Japan - The Japanese have been traumatised by their economic stagnation – but this country is in for a much more turbulent time - 6th December 2011
 * When people are paid by results their attitudes change. Just look at the England rugby team debacle - Twickenham shows what would happen if market forces were brought in to the NHS - 29th November 2011
 * It's nonsense to suggest Virgin's success has depended on state help - Far from being lazy, we have built our businesses on hard work in very tough markets - 23rd November 2011 (by Richard Branson, in response)
 * Is Richard Branson all he's cracked up to be? - The billionaire Virgin boss is no radical, he's no entrepreneur, he's just a plain old-fashioned carpetbagger - 21st November 2011
 * Why doesn't Britain make things any more? - In the past 30 years, the UK's manufacturing sector has shrunk by two-thirds, the greatest de-industrialisation of any major nation. It was done in the name of economic modernisation – but what has replaced it? - 16th November 2011
 * Letting technocrats run Europe is bad politics and bad economics - It's a mistake to put unelected officials in charge of Italy and Greece - 14th November 2011
 * How best to tackle corruption? - It tends to be a cultural problem – so perhaps cultural solutions, rather than laws, are the best way to stamp it out - 7th November 2011



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