Article: Far from a circus of nihilists

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New Statesman
Article date:
April 6, 2009
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Anthony Barnett denounces Conor Gearty's attack on the Convention on Modern Liberty as a gathering of covert right-wingers

I had to chuckle reading Conor Gearty's attempt to admonish the Convention on Modern Liberty in the New Statesman of 23 March. He sets out to instruct any naive conventioneers that the state is capable of doing good, especially with the help of the Human Rights Act, while claiming that he himself no longer uses "shrill" or exaggerated language.

This is the same Conor G e arty who, 20 years ago, warned against Charter 88 after the organisation was launched in the New Statesman by its then editor, Stuart Weir - probably one of the best things this magazine has ever done. ...

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