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LONDON – The late Labour Party leader Harold Wilson, who served as the United Kingdom’s prime minister during much of the 1960s and 1970s, famously...
TOKYO – I first visited Japan as a young member of the UK Parliament in the early 1980s. Yukio Satoh, an ambitious and forward-thinking diplomat...
LONDON – Since the golden age of Athenian democracy, freedom of speech has been viewed as a defining feature of open societies, even as it remains...
TOULOUSE – Earlier this summer, an Australian friend called to congratulate me on my “OBE.” Puzzled, I asked, “What on earth do you mean?”...
LONDON – The most compelling argument for liberal democracy is that it empowers citizens to choose their own leaders, effectively placing the...