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Ancient and modern

How the ancients kept people behaving responsibly

17 July 2021

9:00 AM

17 July 2021

9:00 AM

The Prime Minister is urging citizens not to throw caution to the winds when lockdown ends on 19 July but to behave ‘responsibly’. But there seems little incentive when legions of psychiatrists, lawyers, counsellors, social workers etc appear to insist you must never blame people (only ‘society’ or ‘the Tory cuts’) for anything.

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