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Tony Blair urges leaders to ignore 'waves of populist opinion'(www.npr.org)

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This may seem a strange thing to say: Democracy isn’t actually about finding out what the people want and just trying to do it. Democracy is about setting out a vision and a plan for the country and persuading people to follow it.

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Classic Sir Tony. The Amol Rajan interview with him the other day on BBC was good though. Especially liked when Amol read out a very frank paragraph from his recent book about the allure of wielding power and asked him to comment on it.

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