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29 October 2007

The doublethink of ’democracy’

If The Sun took the democratic rights of the Brits seriously it would campaign for Murdoch's influen

By Martin O'Neill

Democracy is a rather unusual political value – everyone seems to be in favour of it. Just think of the regimes that have clamoured to call themselves democratic.

History provides examples as striking as the grotesque pantomime of the authoritarian Stasi-land of the old East Germany describing itself as the German Democratic Republic.

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