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In the 1960s the buzzwords were peace and love. For this generation, it’s openness and free speech. This generation has grown up being able to say anything to anybody. Letting ideas battle it out for themselves.”

“Every 40 years, there’s a new grassroots political movement,” he says and traces a path between the rise of liberal parties in the 1890s, to the labour movement of the 1920s and 30s, the emergence of green politics in the 60s and the 70s, right up to the Pirate parties of today.