Wednesday, May 12, 2010

The big, bad society

What with IDS now resurrected as Secretary of State for Quiet Men, and his having previously run a think-tank called the Centre for Social Justice, and Cameron wanting ‘society’ to take over the functions of the state, an idle thought just struck me:

In the wrong hands, ‘social justice’ could sound very like a euphemism for lynch mobs.

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