It is one of the many lessons of the fairy tale of Hansel and Gretel, and especially of that cosy little house made of edible sweet stuff, that evil typically lurks beneath mask of some apparent good.

'Biology is not politically correct.'

Many who worshipped science did so only as means to a greater idol.

There's a lesson best taught by large-ensemble activities (dance, music) about the value of doing something well even when not watched.

Now we're obsessed with continual observation by the Panopticon even when doing something trivial (like posting two lines on social media!)

I don’t care if it’s called homesteading or localism or hobby farming or simply learning to make more things homemade. I just want a Cottage Industrial Revolution - remembering the family/the home/the things the family does & makes together in the home are the bedrock of society.

'A child is always a gift and never the basis of a commercial contract'

So much of the intellectual stimulation that emerged organically as a children's culture within a network of siblings and cousins now needs to be planned out artificially by parents.

The burden of this new duty results in a fear of raising children, driving a vicious cycle.

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