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Cheats, spivs and small-time crooks: Britain is getting less honest, and it starts at the top
By Anthony Daniels on 26th January 2012
A lot of academic research goes into proving the obvious: in this case that, as a nation, we are much less honest than we used to be.
Researchers at the University of Essex, working at the Centre for the Study of Integrity (a name in itself to make you smile wanly) have discovered that the British are more inclined to cheat, and to believe that cheating is justified, than they did in 2000, only 11 years ago.
Lying, having an affair, buying stolen goods and keeping money you have found are all considered more acceptable than they were a decade ago, say the researchers.
Mere HER i The Daily Mail – jeg antager, at det er Theodore Dalrymple, der denne gang skriver under sit rigtige navn? Samme avis har flere arikler om samme emne:
- Dishonest UK? There’s a world of difference between what we say and what we do
- A heart-stopping call from the police, my sister’s lost wallet and why you just can’t trust anyone
Opdatering 29. januar 2012 – Dalrymple om Dickens i moderne krisetider:
Hard Times Again
Amid the wreck of capitalism and socialism, Dickens is timelier than ever.
By Theodore Dalrymple | January 23, 2012
We live in hard times, and all the indications are that they may get much, even very much, harder. No one, at any rate, would take a bet that they won’t.
The number of children in America claiming subsidized meals in school has shot up; the homeless are increasing by the hour; the formerly prosperous are laid off without so much as a thank you; the young struggle to find any work at all; beggars are making a comeback on the streets of cities as if they had been hiding all these years, waiting for the right moment to emerge from their subterranean lairs into the world above.
Mere HER i The American Conservative.
Opdatering 3. og 4. februar 2012:
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