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    Democracy inaction

    Mar 22, 2020 2 minutes
    by TONY MURROW

    hilosopher AC Grayling’s 2017 work told us what every reader knows: democracy is at best a vulnerable political system that is far from perfect. In Grayling’s follow-up, , there’s more balance – democracy is the best system we’ve so far discovered, so let’s tinker under the bonnet and hot-rod that system so it functions

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