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Let’s one and all sing an ode to recycled populism

By  Jenny Luesby

Populism is an ugly thing, filled with disappointments. It can render leaders into little more than stage-show magicians presenting crowds with new and beautiful rabbits apparently from nowhere, where, in reality, the rabbits were already there or never existed at all.

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