You are right - populism does not possess a coherent programme. At present it is merely a demand for the voice. However the more it finds it voice, the greater the potential for the emergence of a coherent alternative to the prevailing regime of social engineering/ technocracy.
My fear is that Britain is in danger of becoming a DINO-democracy in name only.
I also think that the events now playing out-rampant anti-Semitism, mob rule, resurgent Islamism, a weak government reliant on appeasement, denial and unconvincing puffery-note PM Sunak's recent feeble speech,conflating the ever useful 'far right' with a tiptoe round Islamic extremism,-the reluctance to acknowledge the looming collision between Net Zero fantasies and sanctioned mass migration, might well see a replication of the fate which befell the Weimar Republic.
Minister Walter von Rathenau was assassinated in 1922, our own David Amess in 2021; von Rathenau came from a prominent Jewish family; Amess was a member of the Conservative Friends of Israel.
Our leaders constantly attempt to appease the growing influence of extremism ,just as the Weimar leaders and various industrialists did in their futile attempts to constrain Hitler's lethal aims.
We have a similar stripping away of every sexual preference, to the extent that drag queens 'entertain' young children, transgenderism is openly promoted in schools, hard core porn is readily available online and many young people are seemingly adrift, robbed of the anchors which formerly celebrated common cause, boundaries and national cohesion.
Having read several accounts of the Weimar era, I cannot help but see similar warning signs: a loss of trust in our leaders, increasing polarisation, the lasting damage caused by the disastrous lockdowns.
Very interesting piece: especially on the interaction between economics and cultural politics, which has always been portrayed as either remote or at best obscure. Here it seems that economics are used as a technical explanation to discredit popular opposition to elites. Is this technocratic approach to economics itself amenable to critique: both in terms of it's fundamental beliefs, and it's own coherence? If the cultural turn in politics makes the old models of compromise redundant are we about to witness a more disruptive, dramatic and enduring breakdown of the European order?
You are right - populism does not possess a coherent programme. At present it is merely a demand for the voice. However the more it finds it voice, the greater the potential for the emergence of a coherent alternative to the prevailing regime of social engineering/ technocracy.
We need to reconfigure the relation between culture and economics to avoid being one-sided and also seek to de-politicise expertise.
My fear is that Britain is in danger of becoming a DINO-democracy in name only.
I also think that the events now playing out-rampant anti-Semitism, mob rule, resurgent Islamism, a weak government reliant on appeasement, denial and unconvincing puffery-note PM Sunak's recent feeble speech,conflating the ever useful 'far right' with a tiptoe round Islamic extremism,-the reluctance to acknowledge the looming collision between Net Zero fantasies and sanctioned mass migration, might well see a replication of the fate which befell the Weimar Republic.
Minister Walter von Rathenau was assassinated in 1922, our own David Amess in 2021; von Rathenau came from a prominent Jewish family; Amess was a member of the Conservative Friends of Israel.
Our leaders constantly attempt to appease the growing influence of extremism ,just as the Weimar leaders and various industrialists did in their futile attempts to constrain Hitler's lethal aims.
We have a similar stripping away of every sexual preference, to the extent that drag queens 'entertain' young children, transgenderism is openly promoted in schools, hard core porn is readily available online and many young people are seemingly adrift, robbed of the anchors which formerly celebrated common cause, boundaries and national cohesion.
Having read several accounts of the Weimar era, I cannot help but see similar warning signs: a loss of trust in our leaders, increasing polarisation, the lasting damage caused by the disastrous lockdowns.
Very interesting piece: especially on the interaction between economics and cultural politics, which has always been portrayed as either remote or at best obscure. Here it seems that economics are used as a technical explanation to discredit popular opposition to elites. Is this technocratic approach to economics itself amenable to critique: both in terms of it's fundamental beliefs, and it's own coherence? If the cultural turn in politics makes the old models of compromise redundant are we about to witness a more disruptive, dramatic and enduring breakdown of the European order?