Political pendulum swings as clocks chime in the decade

It's only decades that inspire which are given the accolade of a memorable prefix; the naughty nineties, roaring twenties, swinging sixties. Perhaps in this respect the past decade never stood a chance. For, as Professor Brian Abel-Smith, a long time adviser to successive governments at the DHSS explains, the high hopes with which the seventies started were soon dashed. Looking further ahead through the next ten years he outlines the major difficulties which will beset us and asks whether we have the political will and economic ingenuity to face up to them.