What ideas will shape Britain and the world in the coming year? © David Ryle
We live in extraordinary times. This makes a nonsense of the term “developed world”—implying that the story, in the countries of the west, is all told. That notion is confounded by the scale of the change through which we are living, in politics, economics and technology. Some of this has difficult consequences. It is a hard time to run a democracy now. Governments must confront voters with retrenchment; as we say below, politics has become “the management of disappointments.” Elected leaders have fewer levers to pull; …read more
Source: Prospect
