Financial Times
Nov 8, 2019 - 7 min
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How ‘vice-signalling’ swallowed electoral politics
14 mins | Jun 30, 2022
Crowd-pleasing and opponent-angering stunts are evolving in concerning ways. Politicians have always pandered. But lately, political stunts have taken a darker turn. From Boris Johnson's Rwanda resettlement policy to Trump's wall, Stephen Bush reflects on the phenomenon of 'vice signalling' and its implications for the world of politics.
