It was Michael Gove, the education minister and Vote Leave figurehead, who said in 2016: "I think the people of this country have had enough of experts"[0]. Th

It was Michael Gove, the education minister and Vote Leave figurehead, who said in 2016: "I think the people of this country have had enough of experts"[0]. This line of thinking is beautifully conveyed in a satirical drawing by Will McPhail that appeared in the 2017-01-02 issue of The New Yorker with the caption "These smug pilots have lost touch with regular passengers like us. Who thinks I should fly the plane?".[1] Another satirical drawing from 2016 seems to capture a similar pathology, where the character starts by saying "I want things to be different".[2] [0] https://www.london.edu/think/who-needs-experts https://www.london.edu/think/who-needs-experts [1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/01/06/trump-cartoon-new-yorker-column/96208552/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/01/06/trump-cart... [2] https://webcomicname.com/post/152958755984 https://webcomicname.com/post/152958755984