Don't Tell Me the Score

Don’t Tell Me the Score

I’m a moderate fan of some sports (football, cycling, tennis) and an occasional follower of others (international rugby and international cricket). In the case of rugby, I’m easily bored. I no longer understand the pernickety rules. Many games, for most of their duration, resemble the playground game of British Bulldog, without the latter’s fun (big men charging fruitlessly at a line of other big men). In the case of cricket, I like the radio commentary more than the game commented on.

Liberalism and Toleration - a Tricky Combination

Liberalism and Toleration – a Tricky Combination

(This a revised and expanded version of post from November 2015 on Toleration and replaces that post)

Most people would probably agree that toleration is an essential component of liberalism, even if, if pressed, people’s definition of “liberalism” may differ wildly. Nonetheless, it is broadly true that modern liberalism, in most of its guises, has a large part of its origin in developing theories of toleration.