Chris Trotter's latest piece for Insight, Fixing What's been Broken, raised an important point which has also been occupying my own mind in the last few weeks. Chris wrote: An effective defence of liberal democratic values requires at least one of two crucial qualities. The first is gravitas. A leader able to project wisdom and […]

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I value the principles which became the hallmarks of Western democracy, made possible by the Age of Reason; religious tolerance (a wall between religion and state), a commitment to scientific inquiry,...