I have been getting The Economist every week for around 50 years now to avail of its breadth of international coverage, its economic literacy and its democratic rationality.
Last week, the magazine’s Bagehot column wrote a piece under the headline “The paranoid style in British politics”. It argued that there had been a “golden age of paranoia” afflicting British politics in the 1970s and that “a second golden age of paranoia is happening right now.”