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In the face of climate change and an international drift towards fascism, the centre and the right are descending into farce, writes NEIL FINDLAY

POLITICS has gone mad — completely stark raving mad. What the hell is going on?

And I don’t just mean the Tory Party leadership election, where among a rogues’ gallery of austerity junkies, Frankie Dettori lookalike Rory Stewart was seen as “a bit of an outsider” with “fresh appeal.”

Outsider? The son of “a diplomat” who sought to become Britain’s chief spook, he was brought up in Malaysia and educated at the Dragon School in Oxford, then of course Eton College and Oxford University before becoming a colonial official and then a Tory MP. Yep, our Rory had a real outsider’s CV.

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