Strongmen rule – Erdogan, Trump, Bolsonaro, Putin, Savini. Where Liberal Democracy and the ‘bourgeois parties’ fail to present their electorates with a strong, credible leader,…
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
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After last Sunday’s win in the Brazilian presidential election, supporters of Jair Bolsonaro took to the streets clad in the yellow and green colours of…
We all used to believe that liberal democratic principles would inevitably spread to consume the whole world. Peace, stability and prosperity would, as a consequence,…
“Liberalism made the modern world, but the modern world is turning against it. Europe and America are in the throes of a popular rebellion against…
Socialists are naïve about power; Liberals are naïve about money. That is the rule of thumb that I find myself judging current policy by –…
President Macron was elected on the promise of bringing radical change to France while operating from the centre of the political spectrum or, as he…
I am currently walking along Hadrian’s Wall with my family, and very exhausting it is (in a good way), where once an early version of…
“I feel certain that the fort of selfishness and monopoly cannot be held for ever, and that the walls of privilege cannot through all time…
Heaven knows, I am no supporter of Boris Johnson, but I wonder whether there may be issues – perhaps of less symbolic value – but…
The fall of the Berlin Wall and the whole authoritarian Soviet system in 1989 heralded what we all thought was a victory for liberal democracy….
Nationalism, those of us in the centre ground of politics are told, is a very bad thing: inability to work together across borders, tribalism, “othering”…
They say that the political centre ground has been vacated creating a big opportunity for so-called ‘centrist’ political forces to make big gains by re-occupying…