David Goodhart

A groundbreaking and timely explanation of the social and political change sweeping the world. Many Remainers reported waking up the day after the Brexit vote feeling as if they were living in a foreign country. In fact, they were merely experiencing the same feeling that many British people have felt every day for years. Fifty years ago, people in leafy...

A profound investigation into the deeper reason for our political alienation. The coronavirus pandemic taught us something we ought already to have known—that care workers, supermarket shelf-stackers, delivery drivers and cleaners are doing essential work that keeps us all alive, fed and cared for. Until recently, much of this work was regarded as menial by the same society that now...