Nick Dowson looks to the future of democracy – and considers how we can make it our own.
A world of cages, propaganda-scrolling on our screens, rights and free movement dismantled for most – but flows of capital intact. Techniques of targeted voter suppression honed as the data mining industry matures.
All the noise of an endless media circus, even as genuinely progressive ideas are kept off the agenda. Support for so-called (liberal) democracy spirals out through the plughole – where the solutions to our overlapping crises should be.
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