In an essay at Law and Liberty, Dalrymple argues that in both Britain and France, the need for reform is urgent yet seems simultaneously impossible: democratic legitimacy is eroded, society lacks a moral compass, and the systems designed to govern us have become incapable of authentic renewal.

The problem is not electoral fraud, or procedures that are not adhered to; the problem is that the political systems of both countries work and result in legitimacy only if there are two predominant parties, which is no longer the case. Both the president of France and the prime minister of Britain, though elected according to the rules, were unpopular even before they began to rule, being the choice of only a small minority of the population.

Read it here.