They will be as loudly and confidently wrong in future as they have been in the past: they have no incentive to change, and I am afraid their foolish fans will love them for it. Because the message is always, you're OK, the world is as it should be, and what you feel is true, is true.
Dan Hind
Meanwhile wealthy liberals will wring their hands about the indelicacy of Reform's propaganda, might even realise that they are dealing with a far right project. But they will refuse to support the one electoral project that can beat Reform, for reasons provided by the centrist establishment.
Britain's university system, built in large part after WW2, was one of most important elements in a state project to modernise the UK economy. From Thatcher onwards successive governments have tried out various kinds of market-mimicking governance and now the sector seems to be in full-blown crisis.
A group of very rich people have realised that they can mobilise non-voters through targeted ads, platform influencer subsidies, and a paid-for ground game: the hope is relatively modest investments can be turned into massive payouts via preferential access to policy-making after the 2029 election.
