This week, the former government equality tsar Trevor Phillips wrote that “the political and media elite” have achieved “institutional capture” across swathes of the UK’s governing apparatus. Pentagon leaks | The FBI has arrested Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old air national guardsman in Massachusetts, on suspicion of being responsible for the leak of US classified defence documents that laid bare military secrets and upset Washington’s relations with key allies. The party’s embrace of hyper-globalisation, a hangover from Thatcherism, mass immigration and the hollowing out of national democracy as power drifted away to distant institutions has chimed with the graduate minority but alienated a larger majority of non-graduates, workers and pensioners.

Values, Voice and Virtue: The New British Politics Values, Voice and Virtue: The New British Politics

Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. As Jackman and Muha showed in their pioneering 1984 study, although well-educated whites held more favourable attitudes towards black people than less-educated whites, they did not support any concrete government economic intervention in promoting racial equality. Did you know the UK runs a scheme that flies Ukrainian civilians here, gives them intensive military training, then sends them back as rookie soldiers with the basic skills they need to fight Russia? The new elite cleaves to supra-national (and undemocratic) institutions such as the EU and cannot accept any rejection of their preferences further alienating the ‘traditionalists’ by labelling them racists, bigots, homophobes, Nazis and whatever else is available to them in the pejorative lexicon of the left.The last decade was the most volatile in British politics since the introduction of universal suffrage.

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One is the rise of a radical progressive left which represents only 13% of the British population but dominates Labour and Twitter. A single missile laser-targeted at a careless, feckless ruling elite who have ignored the wants and wills of the vast majority of voters . Over the past decade, a country once known around the globe for its stable politics has seemingly descended into chaos. Recently, after Thomas Piketty and other economists starting talking about the 1%’s wealth, sociologists have started to look again for answers about who these people are.Football | Premier League clubs have agreed to ban gambling sponsors on the front of shirts from the start of the 2026-27 season. The Spectator magazine devoted its cover to the “new elite” and how “the woke aristocracy” is on a “march through the institutions”.