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...paradoxically, unstable. While followers tend to believe their leader to be infallible, the moment they no longer believe so, his power has vanished. At that time, movements either fall apart or find a charismatic successor. If Trump stumbles enough to reveal a weakness, and his supporters are willing to see it, this particular anti-establishment movement could disappear...

...paradox – the quest for absolute knowledge has produced the result that absolute knowledge is impossible or, at least, unavailable. The shorthand name that Nietzsche gave to a reality of which we only ever have perspectival knowledge, and in which knowledge is relative to our method and context, is ‘becoming’. Becoming is worth nothing to those who adhere to the...

...paradox. It is a proof of concept that cultural identity is, as Stuart Hall, former professor of sociology at the Open University, once remarked, ‘always a matter of becoming as well as of being.’ [Map of MK] Map of Milton Keynes European Capital of Culture 2023 Milton Keynes has a brazen attitude to its own paradoxes. It calls itself a city, even though technically...