Dan sat down with Simon Reid-Henry to discuss the evolution of Western democracy across the world from the early 1970s to present day. They talk about the broad decline of the centrist post-war politics over the past decades and the rise of people turning to the more radical ends of the political spectrum.
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The Aftermath of World War One
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