{"id":37583,"date":"2018-04-19T15:27:45","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T13:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/04\/19\/in-this-golden-age-of-political-arrogance-david-cameron-is-king-rafael-behr\/"},"modified":"2018-04-19T15:27:45","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T13:27:45","slug":"in-this-golden-age-of-political-arrogance-david-cameron-is-king-rafael-behr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=37583","title":{"rendered":"In this golden age of political arrogance, David Cameron is king | Rafael Behr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Politicians not taking responsibility for their actions is nothing new, but Cameron\u2019s breezy \u2018no regrets\u2019 over Brexit is a classic of the genreIt has never been difficult to distinguish between David Cameron and a humble man plagued by self-doubt.The former prime minister\u2019s most prominent trait in power \u2013 and probably the reason he lost it \u2013 was his combination of blithe confidence with peevishness when challenged by people he judged to be his social inferiors, which covers most people. So it is not surprising to learn now, in a TV interview, that Cameron is satisfied with the decision he made to call an EU referendum (\u201cI believe I was right\u201d), while also believing the outcome was a bad one (\u201cwe\u2019ve taken the wrong course\u201d). Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2018\/apr\/19\/political-arrogance-david-cameron-brexit\" target=\"_blank\">In this golden age of political arrogance, David Cameron is king | Rafael Behr<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politicians not taking responsibility for their actions is nothing new, but Cameron\u2019s breezy \u2018no regrets\u2019 over Brexit is a classic of the genreIt has never been difficult to distinguish between David Cameron and a humble man plagued by self-doubt.The former prime minister\u2019s most prominent trait in power \u2013 and probably [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}