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Too Much Winning

A weekly reflection on a topical issue. AL Kennedy argues that our 'winner-takes-all' mentality is suffocating democracy.

"Winning - isn't it great?" asks AL Kennedy.

But she argues that our "winner takes all" mentality is suffocating democracy.

"On both sides of the Atlantic, in regimes around the world", she writes, "we can watch the chaotic dissolution of administrations based on winning at any price".

Producer: Adele Armstrong.

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Sun 4 Feb 2018 08:48
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