There has been a spate of books recently on liberty and democracy. On my desk as I write there are half a dozen published within the past few months with titles such as What Price Liberty?; The Assault on Liberty; Democracy: a Thousand Years in Pursuit of British Liberty; and A Useful Fiction: Adventures in British Democracy. Their publication is a timely reminder of how we got where we are and evidence that cracks were appearing in our political system long before the expenses scandal that has engulfed Westminster.
via The rot that set in as New Labour took root – Telegraph.
