Why I have Given Up Active Engagement in Politics - an interview with John Anderson

I recently gave this interview (the second I have done with him) to John Anderson AO, a former Deputy PM of Australia, and a prominent conservative in that country. 

 

In it I explain how I came to realise that it was futile to expect that any conservative idea, however well-argued, however practicable and however well-based in fact, could gain acceptance in post-revolutionary western politics. I also speculate that the refusal of the Left Wing Ascendancy to listen to critics such as me had helped to create such figures as Donald Trump and Nigel Farage, who are in fact pretty much what the left mistakenly imagine me to be. 

https://johnanderson.net.au/conversations-featuring-peter-hitchens-part-ii/