Welfare is the basic cause of the deleterious cultural changes we have witnessed in the West over the past 60 years.

The welfare state has bred a generation of obnoxious, drug-addled criminals and ne'er-do-wells. It has also, incidentally, burdened what was once the world's biggest, most dynamic economy with the dead weight of an obstructive and vastly expensive state machine.

Welfare is the basic cause of the deleterious cultural changes we have witnessed in the West over the past 60 years.

Too many journalists and scientists have built their careers on the global-warming alarm. Certain newspapers have staked their reputation on it. The death of this theory will be painful and ugly. But it will die. Because it is wrong, wrong, wrong.