When Every Benefit Received Is A Right,

Obesity Is The Result Of A Loss Of Self-control. Indeed, Loss Of Self-control Might Be Said To Be The Defining Social (or Anti-social) Characteristic Of Our Age: Public Drunkenness, Excessive Gambling, Promiscuity And Common-or-garden Rudeness Are All Examples Of Our Collective Loss Of Self-control.

Orders Can Be Benign Or Malign, But The Habit Of Obeying Them Can Become Ingrained.

I've Heard A Hundred Different Variations Of Instances Of Unadulterated Female Victimhood, Yet The Silence Of The Feminists Is Deafening. Where Two Pieties--feminism And Multi-culturalism--come Into Conflict, The Only Way Of Preserving Both Is An Indecent Silence.

To Regret Religion Is To Regret Western Civilization.

Childhood In Large Parts Of Modern Britain, At Any Rate, Has Been Replaced By Premature Adulthood, Or Rather Adolescence. Children Grow Up Very Fast But Not Very Far. That Is Why It Is Possible For 14 Year Olds Now To Establish Friendships With 26 Year Olds - Because They Know By The Age Of 14 All They Are Ever Going To Know.