A Timely Warning Of The Dangers From Populist Leaders
A new book draws lessons from history to show how actual and would-be dictators can abuse power by claiming to represent "ordinary people."
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A new book draws lessons from history to show how actual and would-be dictators can abuse power by claiming to represent "ordinary people."
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Tory thinker Ferdinand Mount loathes Boris Johnson so much he compares him to Caesar — and Hitler — in his new book
In this week’s Book Club podcast I’m joined by Ferdinand Mount who in his long career has been literary and political editor of this very magazine, as well as editor of the TLS and head of Margaret Thatcher’s Number Ten policy unit. We discuss his new book Big Caesars and Little Caesars: How They Rise and
A needle-sharp book about political liabilities from Julius Caesar to Boris Johnson