The Osborneist Technocratic Project

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The world they were adapting to in 2015 doesn't exist in 2022. Whatever's going to come is already radically different from what we have now. We're in a much more fragile situation even economically in the world than we were in 2008. Let them have, say, a little moment in the sun won't last very long.

Freddie Sayers meets philosopher John Gray.

John Gray was the prophet of the postliberal age, describing global capitalism as a false utopia as early as 1998. In his most recent writing, he has returned to geopolitics, and has described the populist moment, the pandemic, and the growing threat of superpower conflict as existential threats to the liberal, technocratic order.

Amid this chaos, Rishi Sunak — former Goldman Sachs banker — has become Britain’s new prime minister. Has the technocratic order of the 2010s returned? Or has the modern world moved beyond its reach?

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