I wrote an essay in The Guardian, ‘Cry Freedom’, on the 17th November 2007. I argued that familiarity with freedom has bred if not contempt, then perhaps complacency. Liberal society is a historic achievement, but it does not stand up on its own: each and every one of us has to make it anew...For the whole article click here

[The latest Night Waves and Thinking Allowed – which can simply repeat what’s under “Radio and TV”]

The Guardian also published an editorial comment, “In praise of John Stuart Mill” on 8 November 2007: “The year 2007 is proving to be a good one for the great Victorian whom Gladstone called the saint of rationalism…This month comes the publication of a biography of the great man, written by Richard Reeves, once a Guardian journalist and more recently the successful advocate of Mill's claims in the Lib Dem poll.” For the whole editorial click here.