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1 PM. 12 or so cabinet ministers. 650 MPs. 1,000 chatterati inside the Westminster media / politics bubble . . . 68 million citizens. At what point does useful discussion simply break up into different and largely introverted groups? I can’t see how a country can talk intelligently and openly with itself. Even a village of a few thousand with a parish council has trouble. I agree with you about Substack (especially the commenters) but even here we gravitate towards like minded others. As for the rest . . .

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