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Revolting!: How the Establishment are Undermining Democracy and What Theyre Afraid Of

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By (author): Mick Hume

A short, sharp intervention in the crucial debate about the future of democracy, which has been brought to a head by events from Brexit to the Trump phenomenon.

We live in strange days in the history of democracy.

Every serious politician in the Western world supports democracy. Yet when the EU Referendum and American Elections both delivered the wrong result, elites challenged the merit of the peoples will, and some even tried to block it. Preferring unelected institutions, from technocrats to the courts, self-appointed higher minds questioned whether voters are fit to be trusted with their own futures. Ours is the age of I support democracy, but

And yet the answer will never be to impose limitations. Popular democracy must offer better choices, rather than removing choice altogether. Its time to defend democracy and fight for more it, with no ifs, buts or backtracks.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 130g
  • Dimensions: 111 x 178mm
  • Publication Date: 23 Feb 2017
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780008220822

About Mick Hume

Mick Hume is a journalist and author of Trigger Warning: Is the Fear of Being Offensive Killing Free Speech? He is editor-at-large of Spiked and writes regularly on free-speech issues. He had a weekly column in The Times for ten years and was described as Britains only libertarian Marxist newspaper columnist. More recently he has written in defence of freedom of speech and a free press in The Times the Sunday Times the Independent and the Sun.

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