These pervasive attitudes have not stopped at destroying public discourse. They have also entered the halls of many of our institutions, including our universities and schools, which, some might testify, had their dams surreptitiously burst years ago.

We are obsessed with political freedom for its own sake, we deify it, praise it, hollowly chant the words that represent it as if we still know what they mean. What is good about freedom? Why do we value it?

Still traumatised by Clinton’s shock defeat, Democrats are terrified of complacency. Indeed, they are currently just as likely to distrust the polls as the president’s own supporters.

Support for eradicating proposition 209 rests on the ground that it is a barrier to practicing ‘affirmative action’, the nice-sounding Orwellian-crafted phrase meaning – in as clear English as possible – racial discrimination.

When 1941 became 1942, the Wehrmacht had exhausted much of their resources in the initial invasion and did not have the strength to launch an all-out attack on the whole front as they did in the previous year

Intellectuals are the worst for taking a long time to say nothing at all, such as by stringing together Latin and Greek derived words or jargon in place of actual communication.

Make no mistake; the Conservative Party does not care about Britain. It is uninterested in where our goods are made, so long as the price is right, and only touts its love of the nation in a despairingly successful attempt to win votes.

What makes a person ‘moral’ is not his or her loud boasts or the regurgitation of ‘correct opinion’. What makes a moral person is a deep, active, interior conviction.