One of Britain’s oldest and most respected journals of opinion, Contemporary Review was founded in 1866 and counted Ruskin, Gladstone, and Aldous Huxley among its contributors. Elsom wrote for the magazine throughout the 1980s which was a decade of upheaval in the British cultural policy contributing up to six articles a year on theatre, arts, and the politics of culture. His essays fed directly into Liberal Party arts policy debates and were widely reprinted internationally.
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State of Paralysis is the study of the forces that prevents Western democratic institutions from responding effectively to the challenges they face be it from the structural inertia of parliamentary systems or the cultural inability to imagine genuine alternatives. Drawing on a lifetime’s engagement with British and European politics, John dentifies the habits of mind and institutional arrangements that produce paralysis in the face of crisis, and asks what it would take to break them.
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