Reader Phil B. emails a link to another outstanding piece: Untouchable, from the blog The View from Cullingworth. Read the whole post, but here’s a taste that qualifies for QotD:
Unlike Oborne – and unlike the left – I reject the idea of man’s perfectibility. Or indeed that we are in need of a “moral reformation” – it is an economic and political reformation we require, a change to the order of things. It is not moral decadence that links the powerful to the rioter but a belief that they are untouchable, that the normal rules of society do not apply.