These days …

… Our God complex | The Spectator: (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… has there ever been – in my lifetime at least – a time when a single set of rules and the attitudes and behaviour that goes with them has had such an iron grip on polite society? I don’t think so. Nor can I remember a time when people felt such a reproachful urge to correct and if necessary punish, or to see that others did.