ANDY BURNHAM addressed his party’s conference in Liverpool as a heretic(异端分子). He had come, he said more than once, to say what none of his predecessors(前任们) dared. He was “an outsider from the Westminster club”. He would be “the first prime minister to make a break with(与……决裂) politics as usual(政治惯例)”. Forty years of consensus? Shattered. “I have to break the mould(打破旧模式) today,” he said.
安迪·伯纳姆以异端姿态在利物浦向本党大会发表演讲。他反复强调，自己是来说前任们不敢说的话的。他是“威斯敏斯特俱乐部的局外人”，要当“第一位与政治惯例决裂的首相”。四十年的共识？就此粉碎。“今天我必须打破旧模式，”他说。
And heresies, it seemed, were spoken. He railed against(痛斥) privatisation. He broached(触及、提出) taboos: electoral reform, loosening the state pension’s “triple lock(养老金三重锁定)”, rejoining the European Union. The verdict was rapturous(狂喜的、热烈的), for Britain is tired of stasis(停滞) and hungry for change.
看来，他确实说出了些异端之言。他痛斥私有化，触碰种种禁忌：选举制度改革、放松国家养老金的“三重锁定”、重新加入欧盟。听众反应热烈，因为英国已厌倦停滞，渴望变革。
Greater scepticism is in order(是合适的、应当的). This is a golden age for the faux(假的、伪的) heretics. The biggest podcasters (think Jordan Peterson, or Owen Jones) present as dissidents while offering views that are often bland, crowd-pleasing or even dominant.(最火的播客主（想想乔丹·彼得森或欧文·琼斯）以异见者自居，兜售的观点却往往平淡无奇、迎合大众，甚至就是主流。) So with Mr Burnham. The big ideas that propel him are wearily familiar, shared among most of the six prime ministers who have governed Britain in the past decade. Policies recur word for word. Mr Burnham is less a heretic than a keeper of the new orthodoxy(正统观念), “post-liberalism(后自由主义)”.
我们更应持怀疑态度。当下正是伪异端的黄金时代。最火的播客主（想想乔丹·彼得森或欧文·琼斯）以异见者自居，兜售的观点却往往平淡无奇、迎合大众，甚至就是主流。伯纳姆也是如此。驱动他的那些宏大理念令人厌倦地熟悉，过去十年执掌英国的六位首相大多共享这些理念。政策逐字重复。伯纳姆与其说是异端，不如说是新正统——“后自由主义”——的守护者。
Stop me if you think you’ve heard this one before
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