Since the election, I have taken a break from reading political commentary, since one of the benefits of the result was that it was definitive, at least for the next five years.
But I found the attached piece of long-form journalism in the New York Review of Books fascinating because it suggests that one of the reasons for the result was a widespread revulsion not against neoliberalism or London, but what the writer describes as ‘The Center’: the capture of the middle ground by self-interested managerialism. I’m not sure whether I agree with it, but the way it is written makes it unexpectedly plausible.
| Charles | Saumarez | Smith | 
It looks a very interesting article, which I have no time to read at the moment but the first statement about older people always voting Tory really annoyed me. I am ancient and voted Labour, though not a great fan of Corbyn, and Remain and many of my friends did the same.
Thanks for drawing my attention to that article, Charles. Its most eccentric, if appealing, suggestion is that people’s voting choices were motivated by a dislike of bureaucracy and administration. If only it were so
It seemed to me to be unexpectedly plausible ! Charles