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Were Brexit and President Trump predicted decades ago?

The populist movements that swept Britain and America in 2016 in which angry, often working class, voters rejected the political hegemony of highly-educated, liberal elites were uncannily like the one imagined in The Rise of the Meritocracy - a dystopian satire written almost sixty years ago that imagined a modern society much like our own that collapses after an anti-Establishment revolt in 2034. Spectator journalist Toby Young looks at this dark prophesy.

First broadcast on The Rise and Fall of the Meritocracy, 10 April 2017.

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