BLAIR’S BRITAIN has become a "deeply decadent" society where traditional morality has been replaced by "bogus virtues" and "a shiny bauble morality", a leading think-tank claimed this week.
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Date: Oct 14

Courage, love, prudence, fairness and honesty have been swapped for an untried "quasi-morality" of anti-discrimination, environmental concern, equality and self-affirmation, according to the study by the independent Social Affairs Unit. It argues that society has become "morally illiterate", with citizens finding it harder to distinguish between good and bad behaviour "except by accident or dying habits, using the moral capital of the past it so rejects.

"Dr Digby Anderson, the study’s editor and author of its introduction, laments the passing of an "old society" based on virtues which he says originate from Christianity, the traditions of the patriarchal family, and Victorian culture . In Decadence: The Passing of Personal Virtue and its Replacement by Political and Psychological Slogans, he describes the new virtue of equality as a political policy, rather than a personal quality. The rest