Social isolation, disengagement and separation are very real problems in today’s Britain. Whereas once we had much more of a common culture – even if divided within it by class, politics and tribe – today’s materialistic culture seems to feed into individualism and the accentuation of differences. The internet gives us the advantage of finding people with common interests with greater ease, but on the other hand Britons grow less and less likely to know their neighbours, especially those on the more elderly end of the spectrum.
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The ‘integration tsar’ who excludes Catholics
Social isolation won't be solved by intimidating the religious into conforming to metropolitan liberalism
Sir Edward Leigh
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