Revolting!: How the Establishment are Undermining Democracy and What Theyre Afraid Of

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A short, sharp intervention in the crucial debate about the future of democracy, which has been brought to a head by events from Brexit to the Trump phenomenon.
We live in strange days in the history of democracy.

Every serious politician in the Western world supports democracy. Yet when the EU Referendum and American Elections both delivered the wrong result, elites challenged the merit of the peoples will, and some even tried to block it. Preferring unelected institutions, from technocrats to the courts, self-appointed higher minds questioned whether voters are fit to be trusted with their own futures. Ours is the age of I support democracy, but

And yet the answer will never be to impose limitations. Popular democracy must offer better choices, rather than removing choice altogether. Its time to defend democracy and fight for more it, with no ifs, buts or backtracks.

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A magnificent book Fergus Kelly, Daily Express

If you want to read a derisive blast against the liberal left, this is the book for you Sunday Times

Praise for Mick Hume:

SuperbThis is a first-rate polemic and the most important political book of the year so far Rod Liddle

This is an important book, and couldnt be more timely. Its strong-minded, unafraid, determined to knock down all the various specious arguments against free speech, unapologetic about insisting on the value of free expression, and terrifically well argued. In these weak-minded times its good to have so uncompromising a defence Salman Rushdie

What this book does tremendously is pull off the neat trick of summing up just what the hell is going on out there on the great frontiers of speech, offence, liberty and people shouting at each other The Times

Author Bio

Mick Hume is a journalist and author. He is editor-at-large of Spiked and writes regularly on free-speech issues. He had a weekly column in The Times for 10 years, and was described as Britains only libertarian Marxist newspaper columnist. More recently he has written in defence of freedom of speech and a free press in The Times, the Sunday Times, the Independent and the Sun.