The formidable Karin Kneissl, with Johannes Hahn, EU commissioner for Neighbourhood policy and enlargement (left) and Foreign Relations Minister of Belgium, Didier Reynders at the EU Foreign Ministers Council in Brussels, 22.01.2018. Wiktor Dabkowski/Press Association. All rights reserved.In lucid and compelling prose, Edmund Fawcett, the leading historian of liberalism, has set out a case for socialists, social democrats, greens and liberals like himself, along with all of us who believe in the rule of law and democracy, to combine against the rising forces of the right. Indeed his argument could almost be set out as a chant:
In order to defeat the Hard Right/
Left and liberals must now unite.
