Emerging Wisdom in the UK, or A Lost Cause?

"Mr Cameron will promise to reassign policies on schools, welfare, families, parenting, drug addiction and communities. The Government will address “the twisting and misrepresenting of human rights that has undermined personal responsibility, and the obsession with health and safety that has eroded people’s willingness to act according to common sense”. Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, will also give a speech on the riots today, offering similar observations about “greed, selfishness and immorality”.

Other good bits in here, but it may be too late.