This book expresses what is being more and more widely felt in English-speaking and other western countries: government is becoming dominated by a professional political class with little experience of the real world and increasingly divorced from the wishes, problems and values of the electorate.

The general theme here is the drift of power into the hands of the political class and the unaccountable ‘power-brokers’ — though more could be said about who these ‘power-brokers’ really are.