Britain
prides itself on being a liberal state, tolerant of diverse points of
view with a judicial system based on law and evidence, but its recent
behavior has been anything but that.
by
Alexander Mercouris
Part
1
Britain
is often considered an exemplar liberal state, prizing its tradition
of tolerance, fairness and willingness to entertain dissent.
The
British in their own self conception are the great pioneers of the
rule of law and of human rights.
Nor has
this view of Britain always been wrong. The British were genuinely
horrified by the McCarthyite campaigns in the US in the 1950s, and
British public opinion supported the civil rights movement in the US
in the 1960s. The Britain I first saw in the 1960s was a genuinely
tolerant, law abiding and liberal place.
The
events of the last couple of weeks should however dispose of any
notion that Britain really is the paradigm liberal state that it
claims to be.
Political
news in Britain over the last few weeks has been dominated by three
concurrent scandals.
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