“Since the business of politics is the conciliation of differing interests, justice must not merely be done, but to be seen to be done.”

— Bernard Crick

Source: In Defence Of Politics (Second Edition) – 1981, Chapter 7, In Praise Of Politics, p. 148.

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British political theorist and democratic socialist 1929–2008

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