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...writes, is the music most despised and overlooked by the liberal elite, even though it is adored by its fans: “The reason metal triumphed was because it was the other, it channelled the audience’s anger, it was for all those closed out of the mainstream, and it turns out there’s plenty of them.” The music writer Simon Reynolds also saw Trump as a rock star, but...

...writes Richard Berry...[Stop / Reset button] Richard Youngs’s book on democracy in Europe, Europe Reset: New Directions for the EU, begins with a rather visceral criticism of EU leaders’ apparent distance from the people they serve: At a supposedly crucial summit in Bratislava in September 2016, billed as a meeting where a new course for European integration would be...

...writing in Foreign Affairs, suggested that the knowledge that secrecy might be a thing of the past should lead to a remaking of state behaviour: Manning's and [Edward] Snowden's leaks mark the beginning of a new era in which the U.S. government can no longer count on keeping its secret behavior secret. Hundreds of thousands of Americans today have access to classified...