By Bagehot
IT IS getting harder and harder to be a pragmatic liberal. Call it recession politics, call it a function of living in the rich west and sensing a steep slide into relative decline. But once-crunchy debates on all sorts of subjects, especially those touching on open borders, free trade and free movement, are turning rancorous.





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