Slippery Slopes of Democracy.
This article was initially written for an openDemocracy competition asking for my vision of the world post Covid-19 (however difficult this may be to actually envision at the moment). As you can imagine, I took my entry down a political route. Thanks to all those who voted for me at the time, and stay safe! Slippery slopes of democracy. It can take the most tragic of circumstances to bring people together, to establish a communitarian spirit otherwise suppressed in times of peace. War and murder used to be what did the trick but now, a global pandemic can count itself part of this most infamous of clubs. However, in many parts of the world, these liberties and freedoms which can build such spirit, will continue to be repressed long after this pandemic, as governments have sought to assert themselves over their electorates – bypassing democratic norms and offering a vision of a world growing progressively more regressive and illiberal – with states of emergency the route one carte...