It came as no surprise after Brexit and the election of Donald Trump that, rather than analyse movements rejecting the policies and edicts of an unaccountable, ruling elite in government, business, academia and the media, the Left embraced paranoia, denigration, conspiracy theory and demands for censorship
Progressives denounce populism as a 'threat' to democracy, observes editor Rebecca Weisser in our just-released May edition. As former Prime Minister Tony Abbott also writes in this edition, 'If it’s the elected populists that worry you, isn’t that mistrusting democracy itself?'
The Tory model to avoid a low-wage economy that prevailed during the Regency years reflected a uniquely British school of conservative pragmatism, one that greatly facilitated innovations in science and their industrial application. Railways, gas lighting, the ambitions and achievements of Brunel, McAdam and the others who harnessed science to commerce, they were the first kicks of embryonic modernity