MICHAEL MORRIS: Democracy in spotlight amid UK’s new definition of extremism
The debate is about how much freedom can feasibly be curtailed in the hope of preserving freedom itself
18 March 2024 - 05:00
Debate in the UK in recent days on how to confront extremist threats to what Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called “our values and ... our democratic traditions” broadly represents a difficulty common to all societies who value their liberty: how much freedom can feasibly be curtailed in the hope of preserving freedom itself?
My instinctive feeling is, not a lot. But as freedom can never be absolute, nor can its defence. On the other hand, to borrow from the idiom of my previous life as a journalist, is it even a story? ..
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