The state decides who does and does not live, and what counts as a person of value.

Our society cannot see that the values it prioritises in raising future generations are wrong.

In my search for answers, nothing has been more helpful than Moral Foundations Theory.

Whereas once cultivation of mind and manners were regarded as aspirational, they have been insulted into irrelevance.

It isn’t clear, at this juncture, whether society will snap back to its pre-Covid morality or reshape itself around this new “moral matrix.”

Science is now not a theory of knowledge acquisition, it is now a monolithic prophet that knows all and determines truth.

As Disraeli said, precedents are not dusty phrases but the representation of an embalmed principle that has been acted upon.

‘It must throw out the false god of sexual liberation, and bow down at the altar of self-restraint.’