Look past the veneer and you'll see plenty of ugliness in UK politics -- just a few days ago the (now former) Home Secretary was snarling about her plans to fit

Look past the veneer and you'll see plenty of ugliness in UK politics -- just a few days ago the (now former) Home Secretary was snarling about her plans to fit up "Guardian-reading, tofu-eating wokerati" with ankle monitors and house arrests. Backsliding into invective, authoritarianism, and radicalism seems to be a commonality across Western democracies these days.