Frank Furedi argues that the traditional terms "left" and "right" as applied to politics, have been both distorted and proved inadequate by a number of ...

Today’s cultural imagination has little room for the idea of the history-making potential of humanity. On the contrary there has been a fundamental shift towards a world view where people are almost entirely written out of history. There has never been a time since the Middle Ages where the human species has been accorded such an insignificant status in the making of history.

Challenging the claim that democracy is a means to an end rather than an important value in and of itself.