France faces a collapse of order and an increasingly ominous and uncertain political future as its cities succumb to insensate mobs who revile the whole concept of the French nation but are more punk tearaways and gangster anarchists than true globalists. Although it was only yesterday, it therefore seems the product of a simpler age […]
Europe’s Leadership Famine is a book which examine the careers of a cross-section of politicians who acquired prominence in Europe between 1950 and the present day. Twenty figures have been selected in order to show what their acquisition, retention, and (in most cases) retreat from power can reveal about the health and shifting contours of democracy over a seventy-year period.
Some may recoil from the term leadership famine. But there is increasing endorsement of the claim that democratic politics is in disarray across much of Europe. My aim is to trace the origins of this continent-wide political malaise and analyse its present-day features.
Perhaps it can be summed up in different ways: