There Is No Culture War

There was no clash of civilisations, and there is no culture war.

There is a Conservative overall majority of 80 in the House of Commons. That House has just passed no-fault divorce without a vote. It had previously imposed abortion on Northern Ireland.

The appointment of Kate Green shows that the unions have never been weaker in the Labour Party, so do not look to that for any opposition to the deregulation of Sunday trading even if there were indeed to be 50 Conservative rebels, as there almost certainly will not be.

And the Government will not even mention the role of cannabis in numerous acts of extreme violence. Without anything so vulgar as an Act of Parliament, cannabis is now legal for all practical purposes.

What else could anyone possibly expect from Boris Johnson, or from Donald Trump? There is no culture war. There cannot be a war if only one side is fighting it.