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What is a Fascist?

Dan Snow's History Hit

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Are There Threats to Liberal Democracy?

There has been threats to liberal democracy, and have we got another adjective we can use? Oh, absolutely. We've got a lot of adjectives. I mean, it's a bit like if you say Portuguese man and war is a jellyfish and you get stung by one, it doesn't really matter that it's not technically a jellyfish. It does, if your life is to do with preserving jellyfish. They're colonies of organisms which actually swim along together. And that is fascinating in its own right. But if you're on a beach and you're at a stand by a Portuguese man of war, nobody's going to pedantically tell you not to use that term

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