Caleb Anderson: The Ethical Void - Why the West’s True Crisis is a Moral One

The Western world today is in the grip of a profound crisis, yet we remain blind to a significant contributing factor. We debate economic trends, political polarization, and social fragmentation, as if they are distinct (stand alone) issues, failing to realize they are mere symptoms of a deeper, more fundamental affliction: the collapse of ethical standards of inquiry, discourse, and conduct ... and the absence of generally accepted moral boundaries.

Brendan O'Neill: Accusing Israel of genocide is despicable doublethink

Gary Lineker’s Israel-bashing has exposed the moral rot of the woke West.

Gary Lineker is taking the piss now, isn’t he? He’s had his knuckles rapped by the BBC numerous times for sharing his centrist-dad blather online. For using the public platform gifted to him by us licence-fee payers – on pain of criminal conviction – to advertise his milquetoast views that most people think are bollocks. And yet now, in studied defiance of his bosses, he’s given voice to his most ignorant political opinion yet. To a dinner-party prejudice that isn’t only irritating but will feel genuinely hurtful to many who are forced by law to make Lineker rich. He’s tweeted a link to a video in which Israel is accused of committing genocide against the Palestinians.