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Essay of the week: The New Puritanism

If you have ever been in a car driven by someone who alternates repeatedly between accelerator and brake, making you jerk uncomfortably along, you will appreciate how change occurs in our society’s moral attitudes.

A sharp push on the brakes and a little help from the tabloid press is all those at the wheel of the bulldozer of government need to turn their personal prejudices into law.