Officially the UK economy may be back to where it was before the financial crash of 2008, but the gap between rich and poor is wider than ever The received wisdom was that as nations modernised, they secularised (because religion is a relic of our intellectual infancy); they liberalised (because people everywhere yearn for democratic freedom); and they equalised (because we all know we are essentially the same under the skin). It was just the way things were.Alas, at some point in the final decades of the twentieth century, the human race went off script. Contrary to expectations, the world became more rather than less religious, the apparently unstoppable march towards liberal democracy stopped, and nations became a lot less equal, both within and between populations. Those who had been