This is the law, not teddy-hugging time at the local nursery

This is Peter Hitchens' Mail on Sunday column

I suppose we shall have to get used to ­living in a mad country. We're alleged to be a democracy and we have a government that absolutely nobody voted for. We're overcrowded and all our public services are at breaking point, so we encourage mass immigration.

Family breakdown is the main cause of social disorder, so we continue with the policies that make it happen. Comprehensive education has failed completely, so we make it ­illegal to open...