Review: For the Sake of Argument (Admission Productions)
We're all fairly comfortable with the knowledge that our actions have consequences. But how often do we apply the same to our words? Certainly in our interpersonal relationships - whether romantic, familial, professional etc. - we are generally sure to mind our manners; anything less risks the fragile social harmony of an open-plan office space, or a tipsy Boxing Day. But what about in the political sphere, and the impact our voiced and written thoughts may have on people we may never meet? Especially when those words aren't meant to bully or cause harm, but are simply the expression of sincere moral conscience? Actually it's something the UK plc office has been dealing with rather a lot lately: perhaps it's not the most sensitive example, but it's usually forgotten that a now notorious comparison of niqab-wearers to letterboxes was part of a defence of the very right to wear such things, and thus doubly belonging to a very British liberal tradition of stick...