Where hopes are unrealistic, fears often become exaggerated; where dreams alone are blueprints, nightmares result. - Theodore Dalrymple

The main difference between working in an NHS hospital in Britain and a prison is that prison is much safer.

Multiculturalism as an official doctrine, complete with enforcing bureaucracies, undermines the rule of law because it seeks to divide people, formalise their cultural differences and enclose them in moral and intellectual ghettoes. As a result, as Bhiku Parekh puts it, ‘The idea of national culture makes little sense.’ But the rule of law requires a common cultural understanding, not merely the means of repression to enforce a legal code. Once that basic cultural understanding is lost, all that remains is repression, effective or ineffective as the case may be, and experienced by many as alien and unjust.

Mediocrity triumphs because it presents itself as democratic and because it is dull, and so for many does not seem worth struggling against.