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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.