The Euston Manifesto is 2 - no comments

As I mentioned before, it's seven months or so since I had much contact with the blogging world. As a result I can't remember whether I have always thought Daniel Davies, posting at Comment Is Free about the Euston Manifesto's 2nd anniversary (covered here back in 2006), was a muck-stirring pedant, demonstrating a wannabe journalist's contempt for the earnestness of people who happen to think international democracy and human rights are pretty important, or whether that feeling has struck me more recently.

It's been a while since I've had much contact with the Manifesto team, but I believe that the document is as good a statement of aims as any you'll find - and statements of aims are important things. What's more, it defines my political values more closely than - I have to say - any political party.

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