8/20/11

The liberal roots of the riots

Burning questions
Good sense, as always, from Janet  Daley at the Telegraph: "... the great tacit agreement which once held civic life together has been deliberately blown apart. There was a time within living memory when all reasonable grown-ups were considered to be on the same side. Parents, teachers, police, judges, politicians – decent citizens of every station and calling – formed an unspoken confederacy to uphold standards of behavior within their own communities. But their shared values and expectations about human conduct were systematically undermined by a post-Sixties political ideology that preached wholesale disrespect for authority, and legitimized anti-social activity in the name of protest." Read her whole column.