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    Another Brexit vote is a bad idea

    News, John Lloyd, Published on 10/12/2018

    » In the "careful what you wish for" stakes, few issues rank higher than the plan for a second referendum by those in the UK hoping for a reversal of the country's June 2016 vote to leave the European Union (the "Remainers"). If secured, the outcome could be a fast track to a phenomenon the UK has so far avoided -- the creation of a large, angry populist party, probably of the right and perhaps also of the left.

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    Is populism a disease? Or a cure?

    News, John Lloyd, Published on 29/10/2018

    » Populist nationalism is here to stay. Many still believe it a phase which, like surliness in adolescence, will pass and be succeeded by orderly, thoughtful maturity. But they will find that the political world, already changed, will disappoint them. Liberalism, however defined, is not politics' default position: mainstream politicians are in a fight ring facing young contenders buoyed by a string of victories.

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    Can Jones and Johnson be the face of 'new politics'?

    News, John Lloyd, Published on 13/08/2018

    » Two men of influence -- the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and politician Boris Johnson -- now face media bans and ridicule for what they saw as speaking their minds. Both, though quite different in background, manner and actions, are pioneers in the new politics.

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    Italy's right to make wrong choice

    News, John Lloyd, Published on 04/06/2018

    » The Italian crisis is over, and has just begun. Its dimensions go far beyond Italy; they are now European, even global. The near three-month long improvisations on a theme of governance ended Thursday with the announcement of an administration headed by Giuseppe Conte, a law professor with no government experience tasked with running a cabinet controlled by the leaders of the two parties which form that administration -- a signal of weak, divided and warring politics at the summit of power for the foreseeable future.

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    What Italy's power crash means for the EU: It's all bad

    News, John Lloyd, Published on 07/03/2018

    » Power has crashed down in Italy -- in two senses.

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    The dire mess Britain finds itself in

    News, John Lloyd, Published on 26/09/2017

    » British politics are a terrible mess. But don't blame populism, however that's defined. If anything, blame democracy -- however that's organised.

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