Revolting! - How Establishment are Undermining Democracy What They re Afraid Of

Informationen zum Autor Mick Hume is a journalist and author of 'Trigger Warning: Is the Fear of Being Offensive Killing Free Speech?' He is editor-at-large of Spiked and writes regularly on free-speech issues. He had a weekly column in The Times for ten years, and was described as 'Britain's 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. Klappentext A short and sharp book on the future of democracy, which has been brought to a head by events from Brexit to the Trump phenomenon. Argues that the problem has not been too much democracy, but too little. Zusammenfassung 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.

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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:
'Superb...This is a first-rate polemic and the most important political book of the year so far' Rod Liddle
'This is an important book, and couldn't be more timely. It's 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 it's 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

Product details

• Authors: Mick Hume, Hume Mick
• Publisher: William Collins
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 23.02.2017
• EAN: 9780008220822
• ISBN: 978-0-00-822082-2
• Dimensions: 111 mm x 178 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, Political structures: democracy, Political Economy, Comparative Politics, Political campaigning & advertising, Political Control & Freedoms, Political leaders and leadership, Political ideologies and movements, Corruption in politics, government and society, Public Opinion & Polls, Elections and referenda / suffrage