The Fabian Society has a review by Frank Judd, Nicole Piché of Shami Chakrabarti's new book On Liberty: http://www.fabians.org.uk/review-on-liberty-by-shami-chakrabarti/
As you might expect from a Shami Chakrabarti text, it appears to be deliberately uncomprehending of any aspects of liberty that pose politically inconvenient viewpoints.
Therefore Judd and Piché draw attention to Chakrabarti's condemnation of "Those politicians who denigrate and dehumanise immigrants, asylum seekers and refugees with their cynical use of ‘divide and rule’ tactics in an attempt to distract the electorate from a failure to deal with the real social, economic and practical inadequacies and challenges".
But no acknowledgement that immigration against the wishes of the democratic will of the majority is a serious erosion of freedom and justice.
No people can be called free if they cannot control through the democratic process policies such as migration that have such a fundamental social impact on almost everyone.
A society built on an injustice cannot stand.
As you might expect from a Shami Chakrabarti text, it appears to be deliberately uncomprehending of any aspects of liberty that pose politically inconvenient viewpoints.
Therefore Judd and Piché draw attention to Chakrabarti's condemnation of "Those politicians who denigrate and dehumanise immigrants, asylum seekers and refugees with their cynical use of ‘divide and rule’ tactics in an attempt to distract the electorate from a failure to deal with the real social, economic and practical inadequacies and challenges".
But no acknowledgement that immigration against the wishes of the democratic will of the majority is a serious erosion of freedom and justice.
No people can be called free if they cannot control through the democratic process policies such as migration that have such a fundamental social impact on almost everyone.
A society built on an injustice cannot stand.
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