QUOTE OF THE MONTH

‘Kindness, tolerance and love of order become snobbery, woolliness and love of the past. Effortless ease becomes the ease of not making any effort to do anything. Gentlemanly intuitive wisdom becomes the inability to make up one’s mind. Doing the decent thing comes to mean that there should be no sharp clash of attitudes, no disagreeable new beliefs, that might disturb someone. The sense of fairness becomes a belief that competition is unfair; it might benefit some new person, but it might also harm some old person.’

Donald Horne [writer and academic] writing in the late 1960s about Britain’s decline.