"Political Parties Increasingly Cater to Only the Well Educated and the Rich"

"Regardless of its causes, the consequences of this profound transformation are quite clear. As political systems have effectively come to represent two kinds of elites–the well-educated and the rich–they have left little space for the expression of the interests of the most disadvantaged citizens. Abstention, in Britain as in the majority of western democracies, has skyrocketed among low-income and lower-educated citizens in the past decades. In a remarkable book, Geoffrey Evans and James Tilley show how this 'political exclusion of the British working class' was triggered by political parties and the mass media giving an ever-decreasing attention to questions of inequality. Class is not dead, as three political scientists emphatically stated 15 years ago: it has been buried alive."

At The Guardian, Amory Gethin, Clara Martínez-Toledano, and Thomas Piketty discuss "the rise of a new form of 'elitism' over several decades."

And David Swift at Spiked warns that left-wing political "hobbyists will have to moderate their tone and rein in the performative activism."