Michael Lewis has made his brilliant journalistic career by finding engaging human stories to illuminate the data-driven, risk-avoiding complexities of our world. In The Big Short Lewis brought to life the extraordinary black comedy of those who had made fortunes betting on the global financial crash. If you don’t start with a celebrity, it is harder to persuade people to take an interest in it. In both our countries we are being sold the line by populists that the civil service, public service in general, is wasteful and bureaucratic; dull. For this kind of attack to work you need to have characters who don’t care at all about consequences.

Source: The Guardian December 07, 2019 13:52 UTC