Anyone reading this magazine for the first time, unaware of its dual citizenship, might easily form the impression that it can’t make its mind up about the meaning of the word ‘liberal’. This is because for the first ten or twelve pages the word invariably refers to a political party which represents broadly right-of-centre interests, while in most of the subsequent pages it is a catch-all descriptor for the aims and values of the progressive left.
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