Parris and the mob
No doubt many readers viewed with incredulity Speccie columnist Matthew Parris’s nostalgia for the democratic process to continue to be subverted so that a ruling oligarchy can have its own way. Others’ reactions will have been that he must be having his readers on, his assertions so condescending, so very much mirroring a basically upper-class attitude hopefully past its use-by date in the UK that he couldn’t possibly mean what he was saying.
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