How ambitious are you? That’s a favoured question of the economist Tyler Cowen, co-author of a recent book on talent, who likes to ask it in job interviews. I suppose because both the answer and the way people come to their answer are revealing. Go on, try it on yourself.
If there’s one takeaway from Keir Starmer’s speech at Labour Party Conference, it is that he is ambitious for Britain. Yuck, that sounds like an endorsement. It isn’t. But hear me out.
