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Conservatism vs. authoritarianism: The British vs. the U.S. right

While British conservatives oppose mild increases in government detention and surveillance powers, American "conservatives" support endless expansion of those powers.

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  • Friday, June 13, 2008 05:47 AM

    Left out?

    I'm a little surprised, what with the fairly large protests in England over the Iraq debacle over the years, that the English Left, ostensibly represented by the Labour Party, seems to be absent.

    Is this Blair's doing?

    Has their government been as co-opted as ours?

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