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The UK seems terrible at this whole "free society" thing.


I don't think that being a free society is a core "civilizational virtue" for the British in the same sense that it is for Americans, or even, say, the French.


They never have been one.


> The UK seems terrible at this whole "free society" thing.

Did you mean "Airstrip One"?


Which of course is from a British novel arguing in favour of free society with the dystopia based on Stalinism and nazi Germany.




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