Notes
1 Charles Falconer, Speech to the Institute for Public Policy Research, 2003.
2 Roberto Unger, interview for Social Science Bites website, 9 January 2014.
3 This is the title of a paper given by Nina Power at a conference I organised in 2015 on ‘Postpolitics and Neoliberalism’.
4 In an article for the Institute of Public Policy Research’s journal Juncture, predicting trends for the year ahead in January 2015, and in a programme I presented for a 2015 edition of Analysis for BBC Radio 4, I was one of the early commentators to call attention to the rise of populism.
5 Trump, Inauguration speech, 20 January 2017.
6 Carlo Invernizzi Accetti, ‘America’s choice this November is between a populist and a technocrat’, Guardian, 5 October 2016.
7 Douglas Carswell, interview on the TaxPayers’ Alliance Website, 13 November 2007.
8 20 January 2017.
9 Letsas, London Review of Books, Vol. 39, No 6, 16 March 2017.
10 Laclau, ‘ Why constructing the people is the main task of Radical Politucs’ Critical Inquiry, Vol 32, No 4, 2006, 654-655
11 Fukuyama, ‘The End of History?’, The National Interest 16 (1989), 3–18.
12 Bell, The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties (The Free Press, 1960), 374.
13 Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life (Zero, 2014), 14.
14 Robyn Ride (Wiley, 2012).
15 Speech to the Conservative party conference.
16 Keynote speech at a seminar held at the British Embassy in Bonn in March 1998, quoted in the Guardian, 16 March 1998.
17 Carswell, ‘Let’s have iMembers in our parties and really change politics’, The Spectator, 9 July 2013.
18 Interview on ABC’s ‘World News’, 21 July 2010.
19 As tweeted by Giles Dilnot on 5 July 2016.
20 Zoe Williams, ‘Is Satire Dead?’, Guardian, 18 October 2016.
21 Marom, ‘What really caused the implosion of the Occupy movement? An insider’s view’, Alternet, 23 December 2015.
22 www.progressonline.com, February 2015.
23 Corbyn, speech to launch the general election campaign, 9 May 2017.
24 www.redesigningdemocracy.co.uk.
25 Marom, ibid.
26 Dean, Crowds and Party (Verso, 2016), 125.
27 Cameron, speech in Milton Keynes on 7 June 2010.
28 See my paper for the New Economics Foundation entitled ‘If ideology is dead, how can the new politics find its voice?’ (NEF, 2014).