Boris’s carriewokey and Obama’s third term

On both sides of the Atlantic, democracy itself is teetering

It feels like we’re now in a speeded-up movie playing backwards.

In 2016, two things happened that suggested a counter-cultural revolution was under way. The British public voted to leave the European Union, and a few months later Donald Trump was elected president of the United States.

These developments represented a revolt on both sides of the Atlantic…