Down the years, every country has some kind of moral order, Islamic, Confucian, Shinto or Christian, as the basis of its law and custom.
In Europe, since the Dark Ages, the Christian moral order, though never obeyed to the letter, was accepted as the basis of British law and custom. When we lost that in the permissive 1960s, we lost the whole plot. Today, government and Parliament look to the think-tanks and their moral order is secular humanism. But the ideas of the intellectual elite do not persuade the ordinary voter. Its 'reforms' consist mainly in demolishing the previous moral order, but inspire no new self-discipline in its place.
Today, the police have lost control of many streets and, in too many city estates, it is the drug gangs which carry the weapons and are in charge. When we asked the taxi driver in Bristol to take us to an address in the St. Paul's district, he would only take us to the edge and we had to walk the rest. A few days before, the Yardies from London had come in with guns and made off down the M4 with the loot.
