The Archivist
16 February 2026 · 18:21 UTC

What we call democracy ran from about 1945, until the late 1970s. When two world wars, a pandemic and…

What we call democracy ran from about 1945, until the late 1970s. When two world wars, a pandemic and economic collapse pulverised our existing status quo. ‘The people’ didn’t come to power. Institutions tasked with repairing broken societies did. From the late-1970s those…

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