Once you accept you're a child in the government nursery, why shouldn't Nanny tell you what to do?

When the family dies, the nation follows.

Her Majesty's government is engaging not merely in Orwellian Newspeak but in self-defeating Orwellian Newspeak. The broader message it sends is that ours is a weak culture so unconfident and insecure that if you bomb us and kill us our first urge is to find a way to flatter and apologize to you.

The law functions as formal embodiment of a moral code, not as free-standing substitute for it.

Anything that shifts power from the individual judgment of free citizens to government is a bad thing.

Question: How much do you have to invest in the future before you've spent it and no longer have one?

The state of our civilization manifests itself both in the non-problems that terrify us beyond all reason - rising sea levels - and in the real problems we pay no heed to [population decline]...In reality, much of the planet will be uninhabited long before it's uninhabitable