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The US president-elect has exactly the kind of attitude against which the former British premier had struggled to resist Hitler’s Third Reich

Their actions constitute the belief that liberals are somehow the enemies of free speech, and that right-wing populists are victims of liberal intolerance

In the US today, the resentful and fearful have so little trust in prevailing institutions that they follow a leader who promises maximum disruption

Jeremy Corbyn’s rhetoric of class war suggests a complete break with mainstream social democracy

Britain’s exit from the EU will most likely be as damaging to the bloc as it will be to Britain itself

Demagogues can only serve up dreams. To stop such dreams from becoming political nightmares, something more is needed than technocratic expertise

Those who are rightly worried about the politics of fear like to assume that populism is a threat to democracy itself

The more West bully Muslims in the name of security, the more Daesh will win European recruits

It is not usually an accurate sounding of people’s rational faculties or a test of their expertise, 
but it is about gut feelings — which can easily be manipulated by demagogues

There is no quick or easy way out, but Europe — and Japan — should start by making economic migration legitimate

Mick Jagger told his Cuban fans in Spanish that ‘finally the times are changing’. Perhaps they are. Obama struck a similar note in his farewell speech in Havana

The world badly needs new aspirations towards socio-economic equality and international solidarity