Who’s afraid of Gary Stevenson?

A 1% tax on wealth over 10 m could raise around 11bn a year.

Gary Stevenson is probably the foremost communicator of economic ideas we have in this country.

His combination of experience and background gives him a Teflon quality that drives his opponents apoplectic.

In the fantasies of the alt-right, academia is the new vanguard of the left, he says.

The left was forced into the universities because it had lost almost everywhere else.

But there it sat, and festered, for the next few decades , its language curdling into the familiar mixture of sub-academese and Seventies clichés.