Mick Hartley

With all the feverish hand-wringing over the death of Baby P, thank God that Melanie Phillips, at least, has kept her sense of proportion:

The truth is that it is all far, far too late. Britain has simply undone the fabric of civilised life.  And the most bitter reproach of all must be for the people at whose door the ultimate responsibility for this catastrophic state of affairs must really be laid — not the wretched politicians, not the council officials or Ofsted inspectors or other negligent or incompetent professionals, not even the sadists who actually killed baby P or who murder or maim countless other children, but the amoral and criminally self-regarding so-called ‘progressive’ intelligentsia, who have bullied, smeared, intimidated and manipulated Britain into a truly dark age of barbarism.