Who will come second in the fight for freedom?

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An idea has got about that by resigning his parliamentary seat and standing in the consequent byelection - like a bungee-jumper's suicide bid or Joan of Arc on a pile of wet faggots - David Davis has alerted us to the dangers of an overweening state and jerked awake a dormant passion in the English soul. "As I see it," Jan Morris wrote in this newspaper last week, "Davis's display concerns not just political liberty but liberty of the mind, of the identity, of the spirit ... nothing less than a view of life itself, which civilised peoples have so painstakingly fashioned down the centuries ... a few more generations of nagging and surveillance and we shall have forgotten what true freedom is."

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