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From 1914, for example, the home secretary could hold suspects indefinitely without trial, and it was a crime to spread reports that "might" cause alarm, aid the enemy or undermine military recruitment. There is nothing starry-eyed, romantic or Whiggish about it; Ben Wilson is well aware that Britain was always stronger on rhetoric than reality, that protestations of liberty often allowed the propertied classes to maintain privilege and control, and that modern threats to freedom come as much from corporate interests as from the state, and that the two frequently act in concert.
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Chained reactions Peter Wilby What Price Liberty? HOAV Freedom Was Won and Is Being Lost Ben Wilson Faber &. Faber, 461pp, £14.99
In the 1620s, Charles I warned that the nation faced being "assailed and swallowed up by a vigilant and powerful enemy". To defend "the common safety of ...See the full content of this document
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