Too many laws, too few examples.
What I have learned is two things; one, that the facts have no power over the mythology. Two, that if you are going to stand up for things, you have to accept that you will be reviled for it.
Freedom of speech is fine but freedom of thought is absolutely forbidden. stand a wee bit outside it, like we do, and you see how pathetic it all is. There's nothing there. No rigour, no standards, no nothing.
The English character is not always attractive. The preference for irony over honesty can become wearisome, while the occassional escapes in to drunkenness justifiably appall foriegners. Worse than both, however, is English puritanism, whose first priority has always been to prevent pleasure rather than relieve pain.
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