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Liberator September 2020 0 Getting generous - Julian Huppert 0 Which side won the Iraq war? - Rebecca Tinsley 0 Life, arts and transport in Covid - Janice Turner, Mark Smulan, Tom Barney Issue 403 - September 2020 £ 4 Issue 403 September 2020 Liberator is now free to read CONTENTSCommentary .......................................................................3 as a PDF on our website: www. liberatormagazine.org.uk and Radical Bulletin ...................................................................4..7 please see inside for details of THE COFFEE SMELLS OFF .............................................8..9 how to sign up for notifications Ed Davey’s listening tour is all very well, but have the Lib Dems any of when issues come out. idea what they want people to think about them, wonders David Grace See the website for the ‘sign up GENEROUS GESTURE ...................................................10..11 to Liberator’s email newsletter’ Julian Huppert explains the origin of The Generous Society. Tom King’s link. There is also a free archive new booklet on the meaning of liberal values of back issues to 2001. WILL RUSSIA RESCUE TRUMP AGAIN .......................12..15 Tell a big lie often enough and people will believe it; that is presidential politics in the age of Trump, says Martha Elliott THE LIBERATOR WHO WON THE IRAQ WAR? ........................................16..1 COLLECTIVE Turns out it was Iran as American errors left the country at the mercy Jonathan Calder, Richard Clein, Howard Cohen, of their militias and a revived IS, says Rebecca Tinsley Gareth Epps, Catherine Furlong, David Grace, Sarah Green, Peter Johnson, Wendy Kyrle-Pope, MY ENEMY’S ENEMYv ....................................................19 Tim McNally, George Potter, Stewart Rayment, China and Iran are drawing closer with potentially serious global Kiron Reid, Harriet Sherlock, Mark Smulian, consequences, says Jonathan Fryer William Tranby, Claire Wiggins, Nick Winch HERE’S YOUR FIRST TASK ED ......................................20..22 LIBERATOR What, besides making coffee, is the one key thing Ed Davey should do as the new Lib Dem leader. Liberator contacted a range of readers, this is what they had to say. 0 was founded in 1970 and is produced by a voluntary editorial collective. BEWARE OF LABOUR ...................................................23 Many Lib Dems look to a ‘progressive alliance’ with Labour. 0 acts as a forum for debate among radical liberals in Kris Brown urges caution in an open letter to Ed Davey all parties and none WELL WORTH THE RISK ...............................................24..25 Liberals should aim to reopen society on its old terms once the 0 welcomes written contributions on relevant topics, up Covid-19 risk abates, says Tom Barney to 1800 words THE ARTS ON A KNIFE EDGE ......................................26..27 We reserve the right to shorten, alter or omit any Live performance doesn’t not work like other businesses and its material. workforce cannot return while social distancing is in place. Help is needed to save tens of thousands of jobs, says Janice Turner Liberator Publications Flat 1, 24 Alexandra Grove, London N4 2LF HOLD VERY TIGHT PLEASE ..........................................28..29 Just as some progress was being made in reducing car traffic, the DATA PROTECTION pandemic spells trouble for public transport, says Mark Smulian IS IT A TORY PLOT?.........................................................30..31 We hold subscribers’ names and addresses to fulfil our contract to provide Conservative county council leaders are trying to crate huge unity copies of Liberator, and to contact authorities, it will though still probably end in tiers, them about their subscription. We do says Chris White not pass details to third parties - unless DANGEROUS WATERS ..................................................32 required by law - with the exception Action is needed to help refugees making perilous crossings from of our distributor, who deletes the files used for address labels after use. To alter France to the UK, says Suzanne Fletcher or remove your details or discuss any BLACK AND BLUE ..........................................................33 enquiry please contact: Institutional racism is alive and well in the police. It’s time to try some [email protected] new appraches, says Natasha Chapman INTERNET IRON CURTAIN TWITCHERS .......................................34..36 Email: [email protected] Ruth Coleman-Taylor recalls the mysterious invitation to the Young Website: http://www.liberatormagazine.org.uk Liberals to visit post-invasion Czechoslovakia Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/ REVIEWS ..........................................................................30..31 groups/6806343091 Lord Bonkers’ Diary .........................................................32 Picture Credits: Cover: Christy Lawrance; 12-15 (Elisa Rolle/ Wikimedia Commons); 16- 18 Rebecca Tinsley; 26-29 Christy Lawrance; 34-37 Mark Smulian DAVEY GOES EXPLORING this year (Liberator 402) whether the party should As rousing calls to action go “wake up and smell still act on the basis it can ‘win everywhere’ Davey the coffee” is hardly in the same league as former said: “I want us to represent everyone who shares our Liberal leader Jo Grimond’s “march to the sound open, internationalist values and beliefs we need a of gunfire” speech. more caring, greener and fairer society. By building Even Tim Farron’s “pick a ward and win it” was a bit a coalition of voters that includes Labour voters but more inspiring. crucially also moderate Conservatives we can move Ed Davey’s acceptance speech after his emphatic forward in the 91 seats where we are in second place. win in the Lib Dem leadership contest was by several “We obviously need to target our resources effectively measures pretty strange. given the challenges of our electoral system, but I am The ‘coffee’ reference is a bit of tired management also not going to write off particular places because jargon, inspiring only to serious caffeine addicts. It was they do not fit a demographically defined ‘core vote.’” hardly something calculated to enthuse a party whose He gave a slightly different, and better, answer to a morale has not much recovered from last December’s similar question in the 2019 contest (Liberator 396): mauling. “Whilst we can win (almost) everywhere as a one off, Even more unusually, Davey did not set out what I don’t think we can consistently as we can’t be all he hoped to do, or hoped to see happen, beyond things to all people and seeking to do so will dilute our announcing a ‘national listening programme’, the first messages.” fruit of which saw him do a shift in a Stockport chip Davey’s listening exercise may well give him useful shop. insights, but the danger will come if he thinks: “X is He later hinted that this programme would not be popular, so we are now in favour of X.” a series of such eccentric publicity stunts but would What matters is not whether X is popular in absolute see him spend a protracted period going around the terms but whether it is popular with those who might country talking to voters to hear their concerns. support the party, and not actively unpopular with It is rather as if he were a member of an ancient tribe those who already do. who had gone off alone to seek wisdom from mystics in SEE US ONLINE some distant place and then to return bearing aloft the This is the first online only Liberator. As we answer to the meaning of life. explained in recent issues, we did not feel we Politicians who fail to listen to voters end up failing, were reaching, or could reach, enough people in but so too do those who listen too much. print and by face-to-face conference sales. We Lib Dem exponents of community politics emphasise intend though to have a virtual stall at the Lib listening to their local voters but this can lead to Dem online conference this month. the party’s candidates opportunistically attaching Liberator will now by published at: www. themselves to every passing popular cause, and has liberatormagazine.org.uk and there is a facility on the been one factor in the Lib Dems failing to secure more website to sign up for alerts when each issue appears, than transient loyalty. and occasional other announcements. The trouble with too much listening is that there As an online publication Liberator can be copied, is no single view held by ‘the public’ on anything. forwarded or printed off however readers choose. It is all very well saying that one wants to discover We hope this means that many more people will what voters want, but if large numbers of them want discover Liberator and that readers will pass on copies different or even contradictory things that is not much to others who might interested so the circulation can help in fashioning a coherent political programme. rise in a way it never could in print. Davey will no doubt ignore views expressed along We’re still learning what works and doesn’t online the lines that all the nation’s troubles are caused by and what the possibilities will be, but we hope old immigrants, or that hanging should be restored or that readers will come with us and new ones will enjoy the Earth is flat. Liberator. He will do so quite rightly because such views are demonstrably contrary to liberal values, stupid or both. So Davey already goes off on his programme armed with values and presumably unwilling to indulge fool and bigots, from which we can see that he should not be listening to all voters - since the fools and bigots are extremely unlikely to vote Lib Dem other than by accident - but to those who do, or might, or have, voted Lib Dem. Asked by Liberator in the leadership questionnaire 0 3 RUNNING AGAINST SHADOWS The Labour hard cases who formed the SDP at least Winning by 63-37% was beyond the expectations three times ran rings round David Steel (forming of nervous Ed Davey supporters contacted by the Alliance, the seat share out and the merger Liberator in an interminable leadership campaign agreement).
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