Many long-term problems facing our society and economy are not addressed effectively because of the difficulty of overcoming short-term complications, mainly political in nature. These are placed in the "Too Difficult Box"; a park for all the unpopular subjects that governments and their civil servants don't want to confront. Charles Clarke brings together a cast of heavy hitters from the worlds of politics, academia and public service, including Anthony Giddens, Hayden Phillips, John Hutton, Shirley Williams, Richard Dannatt, Margaret Hodge, Trevor Phillips, Patricia Hewitt and David Blunkett to write expansively and persuasively on important topics too often kicked into the long grass because of their insolubility, such as immigration, welfare reform, drug regulation, public Sector Pensions, nuclear disarmament, social care in old age and gender discrimination in the work place.