RICHARD SPENCER
Half a century ago the philosopher Bernard Williams observed correctly that when the British talked about morality everyone assumed they were talking about sex. This tendency was problematic. It subordinated other possibly more important values while ensuring no overall improvement to sexual mores themselves, only a high degree of hypocrisy.
I was reminded of this observation while watching an appearance by Liz Truss before a parliamentary select committee last week. The foreign secretary was asked whether her professed determination to end Britain’s dependence on authoritarian regimes for trade applied to Saudi Arabia’s royals, whom we in the West are all currently begging to lower the cost of oil to help with our energy crisis.
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