Grow Up

In addition to this:

Why was it even necessary to tell us about a bomb in a freight plane that didn’t go off? Is everything we are being told about it true? And I still haven’t seen a convincing, satisfactory explanation of precisely how these devices could have been detonated. Remember that neither the shoe bomb nor the underpants bomb ever went off.

Peter Hitchens writes:

The widespread acceptance of pornography, bad language and general sexual licence make child sex abuse easier and more likely. Surely that is one of the most striking lessons from the inquiry into the horrible goings-on at Little Ted’s Nursery in Plymouth. The monstrous Vanessa George created an atmosphere in which staff felt it ‘prudish’ to challenge her behaviour. In a world where people are ashamed to be prudes, and unashamed of pornographic dirt, this is what you get. Smut matters.

One of the things that really annoy me (yes, there are a few) is the use of the word "adult" to mean "sexually explicit" or "downright pornographic". "Adult" is exactly what this material is not, and we are less and less an adult society as our culture becomes more and more saturated with it.