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Bill is one of the founders of Boffins and has been involved in selecting the books we stock since our beginning in 1989. His favourite reading is history, with psychology, current affairs, and business books coming close behind. His hobbies are reading, food, reading, drinking, reading, and sleeping.
A.C. Grayling has written this book as a response to Brexit, and to the election of Donald Trump, neither of which events he likes. He argues for representative democracy (where the lawmakers we choose make the decisions based on exploring the issues and the evidence) as opposed to authoritarian leaders (lots of power to the leaders, as opposed to the legislature) and populism (knee-jerk decisions by often uninformed people, often in referenda). The book is full of examples of situations through history that have much in common with what’s happening now in the West. Not everyone will agree with him, but it’s a book to get you thinking about the issues from new angles
