Posted by Democracy – Older than Parliaments. A new essay that looks first at what is going wrong in the USA. How Trump is wrong on the economy, but it following the only possible path to peace for Ukraine.
Then looking much more widely. British democracy was achieved by the gradual reform of a system that was originally meant to give a limited voice to men of the upper-middle classes. It is not a model that we should hold up as an ideal for the rest of the world. Nor fight wars in the hope of spreading it to places that already had a coherent government.
Gwydion Madawc Williams 