Iai9n Macwhirter: We should beware the rise of media-savvy populist Right

DICTATORSHIP: can it be all that bad? Political correctness aside, perhaps there’s something to be said for tough-minded autocrats, who cut the crap and don’t take fools gladly. So suggested Clare Foges, David Cameron’s former speechwriter, in an extraordinary epistle to authoritarian “strong men”, like Donald Trump, Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Vladimir Putin, in a newspaper column this week. We may not like tyrants much, she said, but “at least they get things done”. . http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16375556.iai9n-macwhirter-we-should-beware-the-rise-of-media-savvy-populist-right/