We need the state now more than ever. But our belief in it has gone | Aditya Chakrabortty
In Britain, after 30 years of hollowing-out, government is now seen as invisible or hostile. And those it no longer helps are facing the awful consequencesI left the Royal Court theatre a few days ago, feeling as though the writer had been rifling through my and other reporters' notebooks. In Wish List, Katherine Soper has pinned down a theme central to today's politics " but one I've yet to see in print or hear from…