Happy New Year to Everyone
Rosemarie and Nick hope everyone one had a Happy Christmas.
30 Dec 2016
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Happy New Year to Everyone
Rosemarie and Nick hope everyone one had a Happy Christmas.
30 Dec 2016
The future of liberalism: - How to make sense of 2016
Liberals lost most of the arguments this year. They should not feel defeated so much as invigorated FOR a certain kind of liberal, 2016 stands as a rebuke. If you believe, as The Economist does, in open economies and open societies, where the free exchange of goods, capital, people and ideas is encouraged and where universal freedoms are protected from state abuse by the rule of law, then this has been a year of setbacks. Not just over Brexit and the election of Donald Trump, but also the tragedy of Syria, abandoned to its suffering, and widespread support-in Hungary, Poland and beyond-for "illiberal democracy". As globalisation has become a slur, nationalism, and even authoritarianism, have flourished. In Turkey relief at the failure of a coup was overtaken by savage (and popular) reprisals. In the Philippines voters chose a president who not only deployed death squads but bragged about pulling the trigger. All the while Russia, which hacked Western democracy, and China, which just last week set out to tau
30 Dec 2016
Aren't we lucky living in a representative democracy
Of course, I am referring to the European Union not Britain. Unlike the European parliament, the British parliament is ...
29 Dec 2016
We need respect for varying views.
Dear Sir,
DPH
29 Dec 2016
We need respect for varying views.
Dear Sir,
DPH
29 Dec 2016