“Liberalism is a really old British tradition and it has a completely different attitude towards the individual and the relationship between the individual and the state than the collectivist response of Labour, and particularly Old Labour, does.”
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I'm very lucky. I am one of those people who is able to go home, shut the front door and completely focus on the kids.
I don't watch a huge amount of telly. I read a lot. I'm reading at the moment 'Freedom, ' by Jonathan Franzen, a great big brick of a book, and I'm loving it.
If the euro zone doesn't come up with a comprehensive vision of its own future, you'll have a whole range of nationalist, xenophobic and extreme movements increasing across the European Union. And, frankly, questions about the British debate on EU membership will just be a small sideshow compared to the rise of political populism.
Most of what needs to be changed in the euro zone can be done without treaty changes. The demand for treaty change is as political as it is legal and I don't think it's going to happen soon.
