It's been 10 years since the Brexit vote, a revolution that, along with the rise of Trump, academics branded 'populism'. But the truth, says Prof James Alexander, is that it’s been a decade of relentless anti-populism.

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Everyone knows that Tony Blair and the Pope issued encyclicals in the last week or two. The Pope's was entitled ‘Magnifica Humanitas’; by analogy, Blair's should have been called ‘Labor Imbecilis’, says James Alexander.

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Prof James Alexander has pinpointed the day that satire died in Britain: it was in 2015, when Private Eye launched its podcast, and therefore confirmed it was just another tedious organ of the right-on liberal Left.

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