Hip, hip, hooray for the political elites [Democracy and decision making can be rendered ineffective by public scrutiny]
The Northern Ireland peace talks have served to remind me of Preston Manning and many like him, and their frequent denunciations of "elites" and the preference, expressed by demagogues everywhere, for the imagined uncommon wisdom of the cheerfully ignorant and willfully uninformed.
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