SMOKERS´ CORNER: AN IDEOLOGICAL DEATH?
(WorldNews Pakistan)

In a series of documentaries for the BBC, between the early 2000s and 2016, prolific documentary filmmaker Adam Curtis demonstrates how, since the late 1970s -when the idea of social democracy began to come under tremendous duress - politicians in Europe and the US began to outsource their responsibilities to financial institutions. Curtis links the evolution of this tendency to the demise of social democracy and the rise of ideas such as `neo-conservatism´, which eventually mutated to become the strand of populism that swept across many countries from 2014 onwards. The weakening of the image of a politician who existed to serve the people through reform was allowed to be overshadowed by...