Europe and America are taking on the tech giants. Britain needs to join the fight | Will Hutton

The government is a bystander to attempts to break up the Facebook, Amazon, Google and Apple monopoliesIt’s time to address monopoly capitalism and, in particular, monopoly data capitalism, which has been turbo-charged by Covid-19, forcing the world to live and work online. A Joe Biden presidency – increasingly likely – and an EU unhampered by British reluctance to do anything bold to reform or even tax a monopolistic private sector are set to make common cause. They will act i