There's nothing in the UK. So far. I mean, mostly didn't get very far in the 1930s. There wasn't a single fascist MP in the commons. We've remained actually, relatively untouched by that. If the Conservative Party is going to melt down, which I think it's in the process of doing now, then there are obviously risks, even in Britain, of something like that. But anyway, some of these are functionalists. I don't see very much at the moment. Macron is an extremely,. he's perhaps the most successful of all the centrists because he combines an essentially technocratic vision with extreme political opportunism and astutenists. This was unheard
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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