The third prong requires us to meet, by liberal means, the daunting global challenges of our era, including climate change, pandemics and the rise of China. So our new liberalism has to look both backward and forward, inward and outward. The New Liberal programme also underpinned what contemporaries knew as the ‘progressive alliance’, the electoral and political combination of Liberals and Labour.
He writes, as you have read in passage 11, that `there is no parity between the feeling of a person for his own opinion, and the feeling of another who is offended at his holding it’. That is not a way of saying that you know in advance that harm owed to the feeling of the second person counts for literally nothing, that you don’t have to think about it at all. From passage 2 you might suppose there is no doubt about Mill’s answer to the questions, … Read More