Hope

I apologise to those who have visited this site only to find that I have been silent for a while.  To be truthful, I have rather had the stuffing knocked out of my usually positive outlook on life.  The prospect of a lingering EU purgatory after March next year, the lack of conviction in the Government, the prospect of Labour mayhem should they triumph at some stage, and the desperate battle for political survival at the expense of expediency by Germany’s political leadership, have all depressed my spirit, considerably.  I could have gone on, about Italy, Iran, China, Korea, and Macron but something I read in The Spectator rather cheered me up.

Douglas Murray, writing about Jordan Peterson observes that the Professor “sees the vacuum left not just by the withdrawal of Christian tradition, but by the moral relativism and self-abnegation that have flooded across the West in its wake. He sees a generation being urged to waste their lives waving placards about imaginary problems, or problems far beyond their (or anyone’s control) and urges them instead to cut through the lies, recognise the tragic and uncomfortable position we are in as humans and consider afresh what we might actually achieve with our lives.”

Sound advice, surely?  The BBC, our national broadcaster whose nightly News programme seems to have morphed into a sequel of Thought For The Day, tugging at our consciences with endless documentaries of disasters, may care to embrace this positive spirit of practical optimism? If they do, they should need to prepare rather better than the hapless Cathy Newman (Charterhouse and Oxford) in her recent interview with Professor Peterson!