The clear and present danger of illiberal democracy

Those claiming to be liberal should accept that large minorities cleave to traditional codes of sexual morality.

It has become commonplace to observe that the disapprovers of yesteryear are now themselves disapproved of.
Photo by Stepan Popov / Alamy

The brand of liberalism increasingly influential in Western societies is not live-and-let-live toleration but social engineering aggressively imposed from on high / By RUPERT SHORTT.

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