Tom Clark
Back in 2013, in what still felt like a slump, I reported on “Winston,” a stick-thin, lonely and unemployed 47-year-old who spoke for a bewildered nation: “where is all this money, all this electronic money that’s gone missing? How has it gone missing? Who is accountable for it?” Subject to brutal benefit sanctions, Winston was at the sharpest end of austerity, but most of the country was affected somehow, whether through the big squeeze on wages or cut-backs to services. Everyone else, too, was just as baffled as him about what exactly had gone wrong with the banks, and why the rest of society had to pay for the damage.