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25 March 2015updated 20 Aug 2021 9:21am

“Left” is a tainted word in our broken establishment: do we need a new way to define ourselves?

Post-politics: what has killed our democracy, and can we bring it back to life?

By Eliane Glaser

(Photo By They've sold us down the river. Photo: Getty)

What do Nick Clegg, Douglas Carswell and Kanye West have in common? They have all declared that democracy as we know it is dead.

“The way in which politics works is bust,” says Clegg.

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