| Freedom: three perspectives on the meaning of liberty in the 21st century |
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Neal Lawson, Ed Vaizey MP and Jeremy Browne MP Britain’s leading politicians are currently locked in battle over the meaning of liberalism. At the root of this debate are competing visions of how best to secure freedom in the coming century. This collection of essays presents three provocative discussions of freedom from across the political spectrum. Neal Lawson, chairman of left-wing think tank Compass, argues in favour of fusing the inspirational value of liberalism with the practicality of socialism in order to champion freedom over slavish materialism. In response, Conservative MP Ed Vaizey and Liberal Democrat MP Jeremy Browne offer a critique of Lawson’s argument, and set out their own contrasting definitions of freedom. |
