‘Self-control used to be a virtue. Now it’s thought of as dysfunctional. If we don’t display our feelings, it’s assumed we don’t have any’.

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‘Our rubbish tells more about us than our art, and so it is with this ‘puerile tripe and mummy porn’

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As its President accuses Britain of ‘naked colonialism’. This from a country of European immigrants ‘whose national policy has been to wipe out all trace of the people they snatched it from’.

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David Cameron supports it, Nick Clegg says ‘when’ not ‘if’, the Churches worry about canon law and sin, and gays are split between ‘bring it on’ and ‘this is not the time’. Heat and light in our provocative and informative debate.

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‘leaving judgment, intellect, and common sense at the door, and Instead fitting in with the vacuous as they glorify the vacant’.

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.....’partly selfish, partly economic, but especially moral: it’s about justice, social solidarity, and incentivising virtue’

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'It's one thing believing what is inherently unlikely, but what about believing something absolutely, obviously, and provably wrong?'

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Public busybodies delight in the depletion of our vocabulary and the policing of our thoughts. ‘It impoverishes us all’.

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The King James Bible to every school ...’an empty gesture, potentially divisive, and a thinly-disguised attempt to tell teachers what to teach’.

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‘In a healthy democracy, it’s every citizen’s right to be insulted... Freedom of speech is at stake here’

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