早在脱欧之前，资金与地域差异就已将英国“一分为二”
我的祖父来自英国圣海伦斯市（St Helens），它是第一次全球化浪潮时期的新兴都市。圣海伦斯位于英格兰西北部兰开夏郡（Lancashire）南部的煤田。工业革命时期，第一列以蒸汽为动力的火车就是从那儿将出产的煤炭资源运送到临近的利物浦（Liverpool）和曼彻斯特（Manchester），以促进这两地的发展。到了二十世纪，该市大量出口玻璃制品，在全球玻璃制造行业独占鳌...
Ben Lyons
Ben is a Director of the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust, a £50 million ($80 million) funder which aims to strengthen democracy in the UK. Previously, he was Senior Communications Manager at Virgin Media, a leading telecommunications and media business, and an Associate Director at FleishmanHillard Fishburn, where he advised technology companies and set up its first pro bono division.
He also co-founded and chair Intern Aware, the campaign for fair internships. Intern Aware has changed public opinion and the law, helping to double the proportion of interns that are paid in the UK.
In 2016, he developed a major project on intergenerational fairness with The Guardian. He also sits on a school board of a fast-improving inner city school in South London.
He was recognised as campaigner of the year by the Sheila McKechnie Foundation, a PR Week '30 under 30', and is a Churchill Fellow. He is a graduate of Oxford University and Tsinghua University, where he was a Schwarzman Scholar and studied the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
