On the decline of Britain...quotes for the day...

...on moving from England to France...
"I have removed myself: not that I imagine things are much better, only slightly different, in France. But one does not feel the defects of a foreign country in quite the same lacerating way as the defects of one's native land; they are more an object of amused, detached interest than personal despair...
"...No wonder the British (and he could include Kiwis, Australians etc, etc) have changed in character, their sturdy independence replaced by passivity, querulousness, or even, at the lower reaches of society, a sullen resentment that not enough has been done for them. For those at the bottom, such money as they receive is, in effect pocket money, reserved for the satisfaction of whims. As a result they are infantilized. If they behave irresponsibly — for example by abandoning their own children — it is because both the rewards for behaving responsibly and the penalties for behaving irresponsibly have vanished..."
"... more from Theodore Dalrymple, here... and...legislators take note...

"Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes and a tolerable administration of justice." Adam Smith...

It shouldn't be too difficult then should it ?

Teach British children what Muslims did for us....

This from Cranmer re Jim Knight MP (Labour) (below)...

...( I have )never met a Muslim who agitates for the origins of the pinhole camera or the three course dinner to be taught in schools. Yet he has heard of many who insist that Islam may not be questioned and the Qur’an may not be criticised. There can be no lesson on ‘what Muslims did for us’ without the counterbalance of what is being done in their name now - like the suppression of women, the execution of children, the eradication of free speech, the threats of violence, the erosion of Western notions of liberty and democracy. And there can be no unqualified credit without analysis of its perceived intolerance.

Muslim children who live in the United Kingdom need to be taught what Britain and Christianity have done for them – the provision of education, freedom of conscience and inquiry, debate and the exchange of ideas, equality, and reward for hard work. They should be taught to consider this, and then thank God that they do not live in Egypt, Iran, Syria or Saudi Arabia, where their liberties would be curtailed, their education narrow, their creativity stifled and their prospects diminished.

The slow suicide of the West continues with the eager help of Jim Knight MP...more from Cranmer here...

See also the acclaimed Ibn Warraq on Why the West is Best...