Commentary No people can long be free that does not want to be free or cares little for its own freedom. But the greatest threat to liberty nowadays is from powerful and important groups within society that actively seek, in the name of virtue, to limit the freedom of others. We should never forget that the pleasures of puritanism are never greater than when causing misery and discomfiture to the supposedly wicked: such malignity is its own reward. A minor politician in South Wales, a town councillor called Rob Jones, has been suspended from the Labour Party because, in private, he called a Welsh Nationalist politician, Bethan Sayed, “a cow.” His exact words were, “Bethan Syed, the cow that she is.” He uttered this sentiment at a private meeting of his party which, unbeknownst to him, was being secretly recorded and was then broadcast (more than a year later) over …