by Tom Goodfellow, TCW
WE LIVE in times of great moral confusion. Old certainties and beliefs have been trashed while ‘woke’ values and ideologies have been elevated to unchallengeable doctrines, and heretics suffer the consequence of being ‘cancelled’, often losing jobs or careers as a result. Meanwhile on the streets, gangs of youths run amok, often sticking knives into one another. Shoplifting has become an acceptable lifestyle with no legal sanctions; casual crime such as grabbing mobile phones from unwary pedestrians is now common on the streets of our cities or jumping the barriers on the Underground. In towns where large numbers of illegal immigrants are housed in local hotels, parents are afraid to let their daughters go out at night lest they be harassed and propositioned by young men who have nothing to do except hang around all day.
On a larger scale, the recently released Casey Review into the systematic sexual exploitation of young girls (or rape as it should be more accurately termed), by mainly Muslim men from Pakistan, has demonstrated a catalogue of failures at all levels to protect the most vulnerable in society, perhaps the biggest criminal scandal of our day. Parliament has recently voted, by a large majority after only a two-hour debate which was not widely advertised, to decriminalise all abortion, even up to term where there is a significant chance that the baby would be born alive but presumably allowed to die; and opening the way for the abortion of unwanted females (as already happens in many cultures). A vote for assisted suicide was passed on Friday meaning that apart from some divine intervention it will soon be legalised.
Sexual morality has degenerated into ‘anything goes’, as demonstrated by Pride marches where a variety of indecent sexual fetishes are celebrated on public display which, in any other setting, would be illegal. Meanwhile, two-tier justice and the suppression of free speech is now so common it rarely raises comment (c.f. the attacks on TCW and The Daily Sceptic). Politicians talk endlessly of British ‘values’ but seemingly with little understanding of what these values are, or where they came from.