The old hatred has been ushered in by a toxic mix of Islamism, anti-immigrant populism and far-leftism. Liberalism must fight back.
We need liberal – not closed – local communities where empowered, innovative and tolerant individuals can bring positive change.
We have allowed our enemies to infiltrate almost every power centre that matters and delegitimise our very existence.
Often, the disagreements between the two old camps are less substantial than the disagreements erupting within each camp’s own tents.
The Conservative Party has long been the natural home of libertarians and classical liberals. That relationship might be about to get less comfortable.
Marxism, that failed social science, leads him to focus on terrorists’ circumstances, not the beliefs which really drive them to kill.
Taking out the middle man is what the Protestant reformers promised to do, and Carswell is in his way a very Protestant figure.
We should take the opportunity to remind ourselves what real progress means and rededicate ourselves to its cause.
Dissidents in Eastern Europe could look to Thatcher’s Britain to stand up for their liberty. Are we still the sort of people to whom democrats turn?
We spend so much time arguing about what it ought or ought not to do that we seldom consider its fundamental nature.
His critics have fallen for the Fact-Checking Fallacy: the illusion that in politics or journalism, accurate facts are all that matter.
“We need to recognise the way in which a more global and individualistic world can sometimes loosen the ties that bind our society together.”
It would be an error to choose to fight on ground which is impossible to defend. We must develop a vision of a liberal UK outside the EU.
Put harshly, it can be the ideology of the free-rider, the citizen who neglects the demands of citizenship.