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April 2020

Blog Posts

In praise of inexperience

No two individuals are identical. No two individual human experiences are identical. So when we recognise characteristics familiar to our own or someone who shares similar experiences to our own, we find a kind of comfort.

By Becky Grubb, 4 years2 years ago
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“Stay at home, fix our National Grid, save lives”

If one had asked the median informed liberal voter 3–4 months ago the greatest overall threat facing our way of life, I speculate that the answer you would have got would have been ‘climate change’ in the main, with perhaps a slightly nutty rump claiming ‘Brexit’.

By Alex Harrison, 4 years2 years ago
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Liberal violence: reflecting on Umberto Eco’s Ur-Facism 25 years on

The title of this essay is misleading. While this short piece will examine the message of Eco’s work a quarter of a century after its publication, it will primarily hope to push you toward a new belief.

By Jacob Rose, 4 years2 years ago
Blog Posts

The liberal case against the legalisation of cannabis

In 2018 Norman Lamb questioned the government’s approach to cannabis regulation. He criticised the 19% fall in prosecution levels since 2015, and the 34% fall in cautions since 2017, while it was patently obvious that usage was on the increase.

By Lara Brown, 4 years2 years ago
Blog Posts

One nation, double standard

The British Government has often had a hazy relationship with international law. Indeed their behaviour in the mid-2000s could be characterised as part of the Captain Barbosa-ification of the norms of international law: that is to say that they are ‘more like guidelines’.

By Gabriel Barton-Singer, 4 years2 years ago
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