Back to basics
10:58pm
A set of must-reads that shed light on both Britain today and what to do about some of the worst effects. In the Daily Mail, a blistering series of pieces by Harriet Sergeant has painted a devastating picture of the extent to which civilised norms of behaviour have been extinguished amongst teenage boys at the bottom of the social heap, and why. As she says, the reason is that the institutions that previously socialised and directed young men - the family, the church and school - have either lost or given up their authority. Here she describes Britain’s ‘feral’ youths; here how the welfare system has underpinned the catastrophic collapse of the family and helped deprive these young men of their fathers, the core reason for their descent into under-achievement, drugs, crime and anarchy; here she describes...
Wednesday, 23 September 2009
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