I was gently chided recently by a fellow writer for being insufficiently polemical in my writing. My initial reaction: “right then… here goes!” Before I knew it, I had shipped the entire progressive Establishment of the Western world off to a gulag. The whole damn academia-preaching, social justice-legislating, human rights-lawfaring and commissariat-regulating lot of them. That great cancerous legal/managerial progressive Blob that has been growing inside the entrails of Western civilisation for many decades now – all the millions of them. Then I mentally ran through the paucity of course-correcting options realistically available in a liberal democracy and reminded myself why I don’t go in for ‘What we, as a society, need to do is…’ rhetoric.
