What one grieves for when hearing Raynor’s speech is what has been lost: the art of the political put down. Her diatribe was absent of any wit and the true imagination of a good insult.

This weird binary displays that the member is able to project two contradictory positions (virtually simultaneously) without processing error; it shows he is Party compliant.

Episode thirty-eight of The Week in Review is out now.

If a population lets its appetite and impulses hijack its common sense, it is bound to be controlled by its own biological urges and prey to a power hungry dictatorial political elite.

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.”

In this episode, the final one of this series, Peter Hitchens joins S.D. Wickett in discussion.

There is one slight difficulty though, and that is replacing all the things you have banned.

The truth is there is no better defender of the poor, and upholder of their security and prosperity, than a socially conservative society.