Us vs. Them

From Tim Stanley, writing for the Telegraph:

It is not a strength of the UK – relative to the US – that it doesn’t discuss social issues. It is a testament to how complacent or cowardly its political elites have become. For fear of sounding like a crazy Republican, they won’t discuss the ugliness of popular culture: sex and violence on TV, rife substance abuse, broken families, the failure to care for the elderly, the abrogation of responsibility, the casual disregard for other people’s feelings etc, etc. Yet these issues are at the root of our more readily acknowledged challenges. If we had a little more Catholic subsidiarity or Muslim Zakah, we wouldn’t need our costly and authoritarian welfare state.