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James Delingpole

From teapots to rare meat, my Britain is becoming a lost country

People of my generation and older are increasingly doomed to feel like strangers in a politically correct land

28 March 2015

9:00 AM

28 March 2015

9:00 AM

There was a letter to the Daily Telegraph last weekend which depressed me more than anything I’ve read in ages. It reported the visit by a social worker to an elderly woman who made her a cup of tea. The young social worker was shocked by what she saw. Not only did this bewildered old woman insist on using leaves rather than a bag but she first poured some hot water into the pot, swirled it round, then wasted it by putting it straight down the sink.

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