Universal Basic Income might make utopian dream a reality

Utopia for Realists: How We Can Get There

(Bloomberg, £16.99)

UTOPIA for Realists is a well-argued blueprint for radical change which offers a real programme for mobilisation and action on the left.Its bold premise is that by implementing the Universal Basic Income (UBI), cutting the working week to 15 hours and opening borders to migration, poverty can largely be eradicated.Rutger Bregman draws on the example of UBI from an experiment in the City of London in 2009, when 13 men living on the street were given £3,000 a year.The result was not that they spent it all on […]

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