There's something new going on and it's not Marxism or socialism or any other variant of the traditional left-wing ideology. What we've got is a real threat to liberty, which is more generic. So rather than having history rooted in some doctrine like the Workers Union or in any class of socialism from the industrial era, what has now been forced upon us is the aggrandisement of the State and the empowerment of the political classes that are allowing them to make economic decisions that will be hard to justify, and they will pay the price at the next election. David Stockman calls this movement scientism, and whether it's around the green agenda, the public health science agenda, infrastructure or climate change, it's all relying on sweeping control and intervention by the State. The long arm of the State in the daily economic and social lives has to stop. 