MADAM,

After the Second World War, British politics was an intellectual and ethical conflict between two halves of the population, one favouring a return to privileged rule by a hugely wealthy elite who had controlled one parliament house for 500 years, opposed to the other half who preferred the egalitarian rule of democracy. And so they argued about the kind of world which they hoped to bequeath to their grandchildren.

But not a single person then could have imagined that politics could descend to what it has become today, a mindless version of show business, just like ‘X Factor’ on TV, where citizens vote for flamboyant celebrity personalities, such as Boris Johnson or even more extreme, Donald Trump, to seize the trappings of power and rule us.

C N Westerman

(Brynna)