Past Present Future: The History of Bad Ideas Bonus: Sovereignty

This bonus episode for PPF+ to accompany our bad ideas series is about what’s gone wrong with the idea of sovereignty. David talks to historian of ideas Lucia Rubinelli about how a seventeenth-century vision of politics still exerts its grip in the twenty-first century. Why does political authority have to have a single source? What are the alternatives? And did Brexit really give the UK its sovereignty back?

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