Pendulum politics: our indecision will cost us our democracy
Our politics is bedevilled by uncertainty: no instant success means we chuck out one lot and let the others in....
Simon Pease is a former British diplomat. He joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office as a clerk, and then took and passed internal promotion exams to become a member of the Fast Stream, collecting a Degree (Bsc.Econ (International Politics) UCW) on the way. Once described as an "unusual Diplomat".
He pursues a wide range of interests, but politics has always been the
thread.
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