The “post-war consensus” about fundamental values which formed the basis for one of the most sustained periods of growing prosperity and social equality in Western history has been broken, leaving a society without a sense of shame, writes Joyce McMillan.
- The Scotsman
It was a brief Twitter storm, by 2019 standards; but it was a vehement one, and fairly typical of the daily shouting matches that now dominate large areas of our social media.
Last weekend, a Scottish newspaper announced in a sensational headline that Mark Meechan, a UKIP member and professional comedian best known for his criminal conviction for uploading a…