The trouble is that privacy is at once essential to, and in tension with, both freedom and security. A cabinet minister who keeps his mistress in satin sheets at the French taxpayer's expense cannot justly object when the press exposes his misuse of public funds. Our freedom to scrutinise the conduct of public figures trumps that minister's claim to privacy. The question is: where and how do we draw the line between a genuine public interest and that which is merely what interests the public?
There is already a generation of European graduates who feel they have been robbed of the better future they were led to expect. They are members of … - Timothy Garton Ash
There is already a generation of European graduates who feel they have been robbed of the better future they were led to expect. They are members of …
- Timothy Garton Ash
Nuclear proliferation - the proliferation of WMDs altogether - is one of the greatest dangers of our time. - Timothy Garton Ash
Nuclear proliferation - the proliferation of WMDs altogether - is one of the greatest dangers of our time.
The first job of the historian and of the journalist is to find facts. Not the only job, perhaps not the most important, but the first. Facts are the… - Timothy Garton Ash
The first job of the historian and of the journalist is to find facts. Not the only job, perhaps not the most important, but the first. Facts are the…
Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on t… - Timothy Garton Ash
Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on t…
Europe is a woman, now middle-aged, who has already had a number of heart attacks and is currently experiencing the biggest health crisis of her life… - Timothy Garton Ash
Europe is a woman, now middle-aged, who has already had a number of heart attacks and is currently experiencing the biggest health crisis of her life…
Europe's biggest problem is its success. - Timothy Garton Ash
Europe's biggest problem is its success.
If you had said to anyone in 1945, at the end of the Second World War with the continent it ruins, that you could have a European Union of 28 member … - Timothy Garton Ash
If you had said to anyone in 1945, at the end of the Second World War with the continent it ruins, that you could have a European Union of 28 member …
The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities. - Timothy Garton Ash
The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities.
That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed wit… - Timothy Garton Ash
That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed wit…
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