9 December

Zooming out can give a very different view. This is an age of extreme and growing wealth inequality. At the same time it’s an age of populism, where increasing numbers of people reject democratic due process in favour of leaders that are much more regal or royal. The big picture? Democracy is dead. It was always a stupid idea, or rather just a holding pattern between the old monarchies, and the new ones being created right now. People want Kings and Queens, they want to be led, they want to aspire to the status of hierarchies. Nobody actually believes in a world where everybody’s opinion is the equal of everybody else’s. That’s our instinct, to say and defend that - we don’t believe it.