In the final video from our Capital in a Day series, commemorating the 150th anniversary of Karl Marx’s Das Kapital, Ben Curry looks at the question of accumulation and inequality within capitalism.

Whilst the representatives of the rich – the modern “robber barons” – brag and boast of a “second Gilded Age”, the rest of us are consigned to worse prospects than previous generations. Steve Jones reports on the latest eye-watering inequality statistics, which show that things are clearly not getting better for the 99%.

Amidst all of the Brexit chaos and Tory disarray, the Office for Budget Responsibility has sent a shockwave through British political and business circles with its latest economic forecasts – and, in particular, its sobering analysis about the persistent problem of low productivity in the UK. Josh Holroyd looks at the interminable problems facing British capitalism and its Tory representatives.