Why Populists are Winning: and How to Beat Them

'Required reading' Andrew Marr, New Statesman

In 2024, two billion people went to vote – and populism won big. Donald Trump returned to the White House. Marine Le Pen surged in France. Reform UK became Britain's most successful far-right party in modern history. Across the West, authoritarian populists now govern one-quarter of the world's democracies.

But is this peak populism – or the populists' tipping point?

From the counting halls of inner-city Birmingham to the trading floors of Wall Str...