NLB saga: Looking beyond the liberal/conservative divide

The Independent
Fri, 18 Jul 2014 12:33:32 +0000
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By Cherian George Some will see it as a victory for a vocal minority of liberals. Others will declare it a conservative triumph. Perhaps, though, it was never about where the government landed on the left-right spectrum. What was really at stake were the principles by which a multi-cultural nation makes decisions that will inevitably …