Lit Fest 2008
Keeping the flame alight
Professor AC Grayling certainly looked the part - with a sweep of grey hair framing a high forehead.
But there was nothing stuffy about his sparkling, whistle-stop tour of the development of free-thought, from the reformation onwards - outlined in his latest work Towards the Light: The Story of the Struggles for Liberty and Rights that made the Modern West'.
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And he reminded his audience of the need to preserve those hard-won values against erosion in the face of a national identity register and surveillance culture.
And with humour he recounted a verbal sparring session with "someone who shall ever remain... David Miliband" over the similarity of ID cards to concentration camp tattoos
I have to say I didn't agree with everything he said - but then it's my right to say so.
10:45am Thursday 8th May 2008
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