David Runciman, one of the UK’s leading professors of politics, believes that history is not, in fact, repeating itself; we’re making new mistakes rather than simply reliving the first half of the 20th century. He’ll walk us through the signs and symbols of democracy’s midlife crisis, using the past to examine what has happened to democracy today, and to diagnose its ailments.#

 

In conversation with Helen Lewis, Associate Editor of the New Statesman