Mere Anarchy is Loosed Upon the World. Ignoring Shoplifting Threatens Civilisation

This is Peter Hitchens's Mail on Sunday column  

 

The current wave of shoplifting is especially frightening. It is not some invented panic. And others close to me have witnessed it in recent days. Crucially, even the dimmest criminal has now realised that there is no real law in this country. 

The problem has many causes. I do not think actual suffering is one of them. The old morality of this country has broken down. In the miserable 1930s, when millions lived in such deprivation that it wo...