Sublime

why should the local authority carrying on paying the residential home? Instead they should transfer the money into an individual’s bank account so we could control our own budget and pay our own personal assistants.

Today many of these institutions are needed to help with Britain’s national renewal anchored in the political and civic inheritance of self-governing institutions. The impact of the pandemic shows how both the body politic and the national economy require a transformation that links growth and productivity to the skill, knowledge and character of

• When Trevor Phillips, the old Blair-era ethnic-policy guru, asserted that “the key aim of policy should not be zero immigration but orderly flow,” he was clearly stuck in the world of a generation ago, when opposition to immigration meant complaining about litter in ethnic neighborhoods—not today’s countrywide sense that that older generation

Dutch political scientist Cas Mudde points out that populist discourse has become mainstream in the politics of Western democracies.32 The core feature of populism is an anti-establishment message and a focus on the central importance of “the pure people.”33 The divide is not between liberal or conservative values but between the people and the

This morally blinkered way of conceiving merit and the public good has weakened democratic societies in several ways.

the loss of these small groups, in favor of nation-level organization of atomized individuals, has had serious consequences for human welfare and human agency. We are missing a layer of organization essential for our happiness.