We are though far closer to the Medieval than the Classical world - in a place of apocalyptic dread, frenzied self-doubt and a security riven by faltering contingencies.

Left unchecked, institutions will inevitably drift in the ideological direction of the most intransigent within them.

We live in a time of synthetic toleration and fraudulent liberty.

Every revolutionary knows that if they are to cement their power for generations to come, it is prudent to mould the minds of the youth as if they were clay.

As state, party politics, education, policing, public debate, mass media and social-media regulation all conform to what liberalist secular citizens unthinkingly accept, that stratum of society sees no politics in public life.

The Populist Delusion is as an informative, succinctly-written and accessible handbook for those who wish to understand the core principles of elite theory.

Measures we would have laughed at quite recently were welcomed. It is the measures that we would laugh about now that ought to concern us.

The truth is that wherever liberals gain power, they retain their grip on power with tactics as tenacious and duplicitous as any other type of elite.