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Episode 1 - The Paradox

The first film in the series explores how a new political establishment emerged in the post-Thatcher era to chart a new direction for Britain. In pursuit of a meritorious cause through which they could define themselves, this emergent class embraced the doctrine of Progressive Liberalism. What they did not realise was that their ideology contained an irresolvable paradox.

The political volatility Britain is experiencing is a symptom of the growing social instability caused by the failure of the political class to resolve that paradox.

Britain is currently undergoing an unprecedented period of political turmoil. Parallels have been drawn of the replacement of the Liberal Party by Labour during the early part of the 20th Century, but the change is more fundamental than the realignment of the existing political order.

What we are witnessing is a change to the political agenda where the determinant has moved away from the allocation of capital and resources that defined 20th Century politics to notions of identity and belonging.