Isn’t this looking prescient:

Would you agree that there will be deep intellectual problems for them now that the Marxist ideology is in tatters?

Kenneth Minogue: Yes, there will, but I think the thing about grand collective projects is that, like buses, there is always another one coming along. One can see that the environment is a possible project and not too far off I detect safety and security as a future vehicle for increasing bureaucratic control.

That from 1990.