The echoes are unmistakeable. We are living through a moment which is exhibiting the type of behaviour that characterised Stalinism, Mao’s cultural revolution and the French revolutionary terror.
It’s not just that we are currently witnessing near daily episodes of suppression of ideas, political intimidation and street violence, thuggery and nihilism,…
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