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John Gray is an author and contributing writer to the New Statesman. His latest book is The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism (Allen Lane).
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With Britain in ruins, change without disruption means no change at all.
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The Prime Minister’s performative populism and unending U-turns are acts in a music-hall farce.
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