Traditional politics is being superceded in the modern world. It’s time for the left to put people power into practice. Traditional politics is struggling to keep up with modernity. In a world where both opportunity and insecurity can be transmitted by the touch of a trader’s button, lack of access to decision making is an inequality in itself. Talk of “giving power away from the centre” makes it sound as though it is a lump of…
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