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

Current position/role: Leader writer and columnist


 * 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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Articles:

 * 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


 * 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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