Too often, those of us on the anti side of the gun debate are too gentle in our rhetoric because of our fear of seeming illiberal or intolerant of people whose views oppose ours.
– Mr President, I listened carefully to the Commissioner's speech, which lasted more than 15 minutes, on the long list of violations and the saga of the illiberal democracy of Viktor Orbán.
Instead, the very prospect of a common future, of global interdependence, has been jeopardized by the emergence of an illiberal world of tribes without flags.
It may be a sign of the illiberal nature of these laws that the plaintiffs have heavily relied upon decidedly libertarian US supreme court jurisprudence in these proceedings.
But Cameron believes that Gordon Brown's "reactionary" and "illiberal" expansion of the power of the state -- and Tory plans to reverse much of that -- means that Guardian readers should reconsider.
She was very much instrumental in the rejection of ID cards and the control order regimes – perhaps one of the most illiberal policies of any government.
An eagerness to replace the rule of law by this rule of public prejudice is one of the most gut-wrenchingly illiberal features of this government.
This idea that support for the most illiberal systems of government is all part of the liberal tradition is one of the more bemusing aspects of progressive politics.
It would recant the illiberal legacy of Labour home secretaries, of Charles Clarke, Jack Straw and Jacqui Smith, and reassert individual rights against the surveillance state.
