We've caught the distraction disease - we do anything to avoid the problems we face | Torsten Bell

Politicians aren't the only ones to blame for a lack of focus on real issues, as culture war debates waste ever more of our time and energy We all get distracted, as Twitter or daydreaming makes us less productive than we would like to be. That might be suboptimal, but it's not you or me getting distracted that should really worry us. It's Britain. Ours is a country where workers are stuck with wages at the same level they were as we went into the financial crisis of 2008. Productivity growth - ...