
Alex Morton: Conservatives and Liberals share a new opponent – Progressive Authoritarians
But some, perhaps many, Tory MPs have these tendencies – including one no less senior than the Prime Minister herself.
But some, perhaps many, Tory MPs have these tendencies – including one no less senior than the Prime Minister herself.
There are electoral opportunities in binding whole groups to a party based on collective identity – but what happens when those groups come into conflict?
Much of the 20th century fight for liberation involved explaining that it was wrong to discriminate on the grounds of someone’s unchangeable nature.
Why not define your race – it has much less genetic basis than gender, after all? Or your IQ, your disability status, your nationality?
Over time, proposals have either been denounced as politically correct nonsense, or embraced with an enthusiastic “me, too”-ism. Neither approach is exactly rigorous.