Issue No.
50
November 2011
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| Welcome to November’s review |
 Tim Black
Liberalism today can often seem more than a little deficient in the freedom department. At home, the self-avowedly liberal - whether in government or in the broadsheet comment pages - consistently treat the rest of us as if we can’t be trusted to choose to eat or drink or indeed speak as we see fit. Abroad, bomb-happy liberal interventionists too often deem whole peoples to be incapable of deciding their own futures. But as I discover in this issue of the spiked review of books, the liberal double standard - in which a club of the free arrogate to themselves the liberty they deny to others - has a long and decidedly ignominious history. Elsewhere, James Heartfield finds that even those critical of the British Empire can be too easily seduced by a more insidious moral imperialism, Neil Davenport salutes the passing of Salford’s finest, Shelagh Delaney, Daniel Ben-Ami explains why economic growth is still good for us and Patrick Hayes looks at today’s prohibitionists. [Cover illustration by Jan Bowman.] |
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