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Philip Stephens

Thursday 5th of March 2026

Democracy But saving democracy? The way to do that is to fix the economic and social policies that have been stripping liberal societies of legitimacy in the eyes of their citizens. Philip Stephens, Financial Times, October 8, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Democracy Democracy is under siege because its elites have allowed unfettered markets to run roughshod over the postwar social contract, leaving voters trapped in a lethal equilibrium of low growth and rising inequality. Philip Stephens, Financial Times, April 8, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Globalization The public perception is that the companies reaping the rewards of globalisation are beyond reach of the rules that apply to everyone else. All the insecurities of globalisation fall on ordinary citizens. Philip Stephens, Financial Times, September 16, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Politics Politics throws up two sorts of leader. There are those forever reaching for an umbrella and others, far fewer in number, who set out to change the weather. Western democracies have lately boasted a superabundance of politicians sheltering from the storm. Philip Stephens, Financial Times, April 8, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
 
Snapshot He lives in the 1950s. In those days, things were made in one country – usually America – and then sold in another – preferably just about everywhere else. The modern world of bits and pieces, with components and semi-finished products moving to and fro across borders, does not fit the president's template. Donald Trump portrayed by Philip Stephens © 2015 Kwiple.com