Today the DT’s lead journalist on economics Ambrose Evans Pritchard posted a piece on the mounting nervousness of the world’s billionaires as they contemplate possible future neckties.  The article itself isn’t exactly incendiary.  It begins:

Davos Man is trembling. The cosmopolitan superclass is scrambling for ways to share a little of its income stream – as a prudent insurance policy – before the bottom half of western democracy takes matters into its own hands.

The new doctrine is enshrined in the Davos Manifesto, the digital billionaires’ answer to the Communist Manifesto of 1848. The cardinal code is ‘stakeholder capitalism’, otherwise known as looking after your workers, and agreeing not to trash society, or the local water system, or the planet.
There has been something grotesque about a lockdown crisis that has ravaged small firms and the manual self-employed even as the well-to-do accumulate trillions of excess savings. The Nasdaq 100 index is 40pc higher than before the pandemic. Listed global equities have risen in value by $24 trillion since March. The owners of wealth have made out like bandits.
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“We’re on the brink of a terrible civil war. The US is at a tipping point in which it could go from manageable internal tension to revolution,” says Ray Dalio, founder of the world’s biggest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates. Words no longer suffice. The pie will have to be divided.

Davos men and women know in their hearts that the economic dispensation of the last 20 years has been gamed by their caste, adorned in the ideological bunting of globalist virtue.

They know that staggering inequalities have festered, to the point where the average chief executive of an S&P 500 company earns 357 times as much as the average non-supervisory worker. The ratio was around 20 in the mid-1960s. It was still 28 at the end of Ronald Reagan’s term, which is an amazing thought.

Which is all fine and dandy.  But it doesn’t actually deal with the issue at hand, which is the keen desire among perfectly unexceptional British Tories to see “the bandits” brought low, as witnessed by the following not at all unusual comments from the subsequent thread:

Brian Edwards 9 Feb 2021 4:54PM
The truth is the Globalists are the true enemy of the people
If you want to see the real example of this you see it in open
 Borders and mass immigration, we have seen it for years in
 our Tiny overcrowded Island from the EU and the rest of the world
 no matter which “Party” is in power the result is the same
 open Borders the rich get richer and the poor get poorer
 the sick joke is the so called party of the working class the
 so called Labour Party is truly full of Globalists just like the Tories 

Janice Robertson 9 Feb 2021 3:48PM
One of the very few good articles to have appeared in the DT for quite a while. The masses are getting increasingly frustrated especially as they witness the obscene accumulation of wealth by a small good of individuals which looks out of proportion with their input. This coupled with their frequent display of decadent, careless spending while many struggle to eat enough will only further enrage the middle and working classes.
What also riles me are those luvvies exhorting us to support some money-raising schemes for a charity or other when they could have comfortably raised the same money between themselves. Or when they go around distributing food - or such like exercises - with photographers in tow to show us what good people they would like us to believe they are.
It is worth remembering what happens when the great of bulk of citizens get desperate and angry; just read about revolutions: French, Russian, etc… The level of violence unleashed goes out of control and many end up suffering who don’t belong to the class originally targeted. Is this the real motivation behind the new space race: a means of escaping retribution when the crowds really erupt?

Logical Challenge 9 Feb 2021 3:29PM
WRONG, AEP - The 6th Jan US Capitol riot was the equivalent of the Gobalist Left successfully overturning the Brexit referendum.
Although Trump supporters took part it was led by Antifa/ BLM as a false flag operation with tacit agreement of the Democrates Globalist Tec companies. Hence why so little reporting of the facts on the ground or questioning of the narrative. And why it was necessary to immediately silence dissenting voices on social media and brand half of Americans as terrorists.
The idea that anyone at Davos seriously contemplates real reform is laughable. Their model for society is ‘managed democracy’ (ie not democracy), mass immigration to western countries, wage suppression and a mockery of free speech.
You are right about Brexit - at least it gives us a fighting chance against these titanic forces which seek to crush us while pretending to be compassionate (be kind everyone!).
But unlike in the world wars of last century, America as we know it may be lost to us. Get ready for a rough ride everyone.

Robert Lund 9 Feb 2021 3:49PM
The “anywares” are parasites. They cannot survive without the ” somewheres”. Someone has to make things and provide all the low level services that the anywares need. They have been able to exploit, through “globalisation”, the millions of of poor peasants in China and poor East Europeans in Europe, to provide for their needs without a thought for those locals, the somewheres, who formerly provided for them.
The Brexit vote was the first reballion against these parasites, followed by the election of President Trump.
Bidens election is the fight back of the parasitical class. His goal, to reestablish the former status quo. The EUs goal is also the same. Their plan is to use the destruction of the democratic nation state, the somewheres bulwalk against tyranny, and the establishment of a post democratic federal dictatorship.
Brussels sucking up to Putin and China has to be seen in this overall context.

tony moore 9 Feb 2021 3:24PM
Stonking read. The reason for Brexit and, in future years, Frexit, Grexit et al has been beautifully encapsulated. The war Biden is leading on the Republican voters, treating them as “the enemy within” / “the domestic terrorist”, will, in time, be turned on him and the elite. The lies and distorted double-speak arguments to justify the “globalist virtue”, while stripping working classes of hope and futures, will collapse.  Take away a man’s voice and dignity, and he will burn your castle down. Someone needs to unite the working white and black folk in the US for a metaphorical march on Silicon Valley to bring the house down.

Who Cares 9 Feb 2021 3:21PM
For me this is one of the most perceptive articles I have read on this subject by far. In simple terms we have a new global aristocracy who have little contact with ordinary people and are utterly clueless about how much their lives have been diminished by their actions in grasping more and more money towards themselves. nor is it just money. Many of the ‘perks’ that used to come with many jobs have also been stripped away to shave a few more pennies they do not need into their capacious pockets. Canteens closed. Use of company vehicles closely monitored. Jobs security deliberately undermined to help screw down wages. And of course the virtual abolition of regular working hours.
The only route out for those of ‘ordinary’ parentage is to find work as a courtesan or Artisan. Making sure you utter the correct phrases write the ‘correct’ books and enthuse about how liberal you gilded cage is and how loathsome all the peasants are demanding petty things like stopping immigrants prepared to work long hours for peanuts. Often  managing to live only through sharing overcrowded slum housing. 
Boris to his credit spotted this despite starting life in the comfortable belly of the beast. Fulfilling his intended role as an artisan, a jester who got away with ridiculing the new aristocracy, just so long as he remembered his place.
I think we may be OK now in the UK because of that twisted fluke of good fortune but the precipice is still far too close for comfort. If the Elite are foolish enough to prove Trump and Corbin right things could get very nasty very fast.

Neil Whelan 9 Feb 2021 2:58PM
“You’re going to get a very high risk of extremism coming out of this. We have to find some way to adapt, otherwise we’re in a very dangerous situation,” said Mary Callaghan Erdoes, head of assets and wealth management for JP Morgan.
Yes you’ve successfully identified there are going to be extremists. 
You just haven’t cottoned on that you are the extremists.
And now on top you are dragging us from freedom and democracy to authoritarianism.
- Rotten to the core.
- Lying through your teeth.
- Snouts always in the biggest troughs. 
- Self-enrichment and staying in power.
Disgusting and found out. No wonder you’re scared.

Philip Nelson 9 Feb 2021 2:49PM
A refreshingly clear article on this issue, as good a summary of these ideas i’ve ever seen. 

Rerum Novarum was the inspiration for Chestertonian Distributism which might be a nice model to move toward for the west. 

Either way I quite agree that the days of uber-rich, “anywheres” swanning around the globe, lecturing the peasants for driving their cars to work or keeping the heating on is growing thin quickly. As the article notes, it seems that so far we are managing to move toward this new model peacefully - perhaps aided by COVID. 

I hope Boris is listening, and the other tories. Yes freedom is good, but its context dependent. Freedom to amass more wealth than most nations at the expense of millions of displaced workers? No.

Alastair Malloch 9 Feb 2021 2:46PM
‘Brexit has been a paradoxical episode because the Left aligned itself with the multinationals, bankers, and cross-border rentiers, and against its own working-class base’
Labour’s shame!

S Hammett 9 Feb 2021 2:41PM
President Trump was correct.  He started to bring back work to the USA.  He altered NAFTA.  He called out China.  Its a great shame he couldnt finish what he had started, ironically for the way he is presented, it could have saved the coming civil war from starting.

David Jory 9 Feb 2021 2:56PM
@S Hammett Yes he is. Davos Man,the media in general and Globalist governments have all been wrong.
With him as President a real crisis could have been averted, but, as the Time magazine article pointed out, all the usual figures worked against him and will be shocked by the resulting carnage.

Altec Lansing 9 Feb 2021 2:27PM
Historically we have had major revolutions against tyrannies approximately every 250 years. 500 years ago it was the Catholic Church,  250 years ago the monarchies of Europe and now we are due the next one….watch out globalists and, in particular, central bankers.

Andy Douglas 9 Feb 2021 2:22PM
Do we really want to live a real version of the Hunger Games? That is the Great Reset. And no, if your are reading the DT, the likelihood  is that you are not part of the elites, you won´t be the one drinking champagne, you definitely won´t be the one travelling. You are trash, you are irrelevant, and you are definitely dispensable.
Victory Gin or Freedom and Democracy? Time to choose.

Andy Douglas 9 Feb 2021 2:05PM
The elites have woken up to the threat to their hegemony. Thanks AEP, it is a good article, and quite the topic of the day that most don´t want to see.
The question is will the Plebs, and that includes about 95% of the population, take their thin gruel, their derisory offerings  and other patronizing, dehumanising, liberticide crumbs as compensation? Or will they tell them where to stuff it?
In the US, electoral fraud or not, the promise of thin gruel worked. I´ll give it four more years.

JE Heath 9 Feb 2021 1:54PM
The current British/Global metropolitan elite is rotten to the core.
Only allow unreliable renewable energy, get rid of affordable cars and make people buy unaffordable electric,enclose public land shutting out the public for the sake of rewilding beaver,wolves and lynx etc, 
put exorbitant taxes on meat and cheese,allow Womens’ Sport to be dominated by virile ex-men, and last but not least, make people pay for a BBC that they really do not like. 
Crazy ? Much more than that.

Neil McEvoy 9 Feb 2021 1:53PM
Pretty good article. 
Before it gets too late - and this is for you, Ambrose - all this “net zero” nonsense needs to be abandoned. It only means that the 1% will carry on as normal, while the just-about-managing classes who make life tolerable for them will find their food and fuel becomes much more dear, and they will be expecting to jettison their cars and foreign holidays.

Soren Lorenson 9 Feb 2021 2:19PM
@Andrew Grant @Neil McEvoy

I think this article is suggesting that unless the elites share a little more they will end up ‘swinging from a lamp post’.  Removing peoples cars, holidays and any small enjoyment that they get from life may be enough to flick that switch.  People are quite angry.

Matt Wood 9 Feb 2021 1:50PM
Those “left behind” are not just some poor unfortunates that do not possess skills sufficient to keep up - but rather the majority of humanity that does not benefit from the world according to a tiny number of new age elites.
The middle class are just starting to realise that the new elite certainly does not include them.

C The Context 9 Feb 2021 1:49PM
This is also about destruction of the middle class and of the concomitant experience of young people. For most, university is now a passport to genteel and not-so-genteel poverty. There are now very few genuine career paths for the non-mercenary. Many people are on the scrap heap in their late teens and early twenties: no chance of a real job, house, family, life, plus all-pervasive, not entirely unjustified eco-anxiety.  Unless this dire situation is turned round, it’s not going to end well.

All these good people demonstrate a working knowledge of the technocratic wing of the elites’ drive for The Globality.  They have noticed in a way they never noticed the parallel activity of the old banking and general corporate wing of the club, probably because it had no Klaus Schwab instructing them that the world will never return to what it was before Covid because he and his co-conspirators won’t allow that.  Naturally enough, the good DT commenters are intent on not losing any more of their way of life and their freedom to Schwab and his like, and on getting back all that they have already lost.  They want to punch a gaping hole in his Great Re-Set.

All this healthy disgust and rebelliousness has taken scarcely a year to come into focus.  It looks like lockdown has been profitably spent reading sources a little more frank about globalism than the DT has been until now.  For nationalists it presents an opportunity if we adjust the focus of our discourse accordingly.