“In a real democracy, what matters is not just the outcome but the way that citizens participate in a debate about the future. That participation is what enables us to take meaningful moral responsibility for our actions, and develop the… — Mick Hume Copy Share Image
“As James Heartfield, author of The European Union and the End of Politics, noted, to follow such events is to ‘Step through the looking… — Mick Hume Copy Share Image
“In the case of a word like democracy, not only is there no agreed definition, but the attempt to make one is resisted from all sides. It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it: consequently the defenders of every kind of régime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they… — Mick Hume Copy Share
“we do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business; we say that… — Mick Hume Copy Share Image
“In a real democracy, what matters is not just the outcome but the way that citizens participate in a debate about the future. That… — Mick Hume Copy Share Image
“Or as George Orwell has it, in his proposed 1945 preface to Animal Farm, entitled ‘Freedom of the Press’: ‘If liberty means anything at… — Mick Hume Copy Share Image
