The state of UK politics
My piece last week on the state of American politics led to a number of my UK readers drawing parallels with politics in Britain, and asking whether the UK was inevitably fated to go down the same path.
My piece last week on the state of American politics led to a number of my UK readers drawing parallels with politics in Britain, and asking whether the UK was inevitably fated to go down the same path.
2024 will be an interesting and important year for democracy, as the coming 12 months will see more elections, covering a larger proportion of the world’s population, than for many a year. And with faith in politicians of all stripes at a low ebb, there is a growing sense that it is not just the democratic parties and their leaders who will be judged and assessed, but to a very real extent democracy itself as well.