do you remember chesterton's fence? >> are you familiar with chesterton's fence? chesterton gk.that if there is a fence and you don't know what it was put up for , you know what it was put up for, you don't take it down until you found out what it was put up for in the first place. that's like if there's a fence in the middle of a field. i feel like stigma was one of those. yeah. you know, chesterton stigma. yeah. why is this? apparently harmless thing that people shouldn't feel ashamed of? stigmatised. >> there's lots. oh, there's lots of stuff people should be ashamed of. >> daily mail, leo. primary school children are getting caught with drugs. growing up in scotland, that would have been part of a balanced, packed lunch. now. yeah, we didn't get a packed lunch crack to school . a packed lunch crack to school. >> almost 130 children a day are sent home from class after being caught with drugs, alcohol or cigarettes . shock figures show cigarettes. shock figures show that there was a new oasis song. but no, this is, this is a headline, with the youngest kid caught with drugs,

of course, the great english philosopher and theologian pk chesterton said war is not the best way ofdifferences, but it is the only way to ensure they are not settled for you. i wish that j.d. vance and others would give the same to ukraine. from a ukrainian perspective, as pourable has the war has been, i think that kind of cease fire that places them at a profound disadvantage is higher than the price of continuing the war. christian: you are national security advisor, you were in jake sullivan's position six years ago. would you now advise the president to authorize the use of long-range weapons? mr. mcmaster: absolutely. how is it ok that russia can continue the onslaught against ukrainian people, including children's hospitals and ukrainian infrastructure, with impunity? if you have weapons that have the range to protect ukrainian people, you have to shoot down the arrows, but you also have to be able to kill the archer. they should have the capability to do that. and the authority to do that with the weapons under their control. christian: you say in the book that there were al

you know, in some ways this book is is an exercise in chesterton fencing that, you know, g.k. chesterton said a few he had a couple of ways of saying this, the one i like best is an analogy for this. you said if you inherit a piece of property and there's a fence on the property and and you think it's useless, you want to take it down, make sure you understand why it was put up. you might still want to take it down, but if you don't understand why it was put up, you're probably making a mistake because somebody did the work of putting this there, and it's really essential to see why that is and what it was a solution to. i think it's very important for us to approach our institutions of government in this way. we may need to change them, but it's really crucial that we understand why they are the way they are before we do that. and that's what the book tries to do. all right. i'm going to open it up to you lots if anybody has a question, please raise your hand. i'll call on you and then a microphone will come your way and there's a mic for right by you. so you can go first. i

chesterton has it that when people stop believing in god, they don't then believe in nothing, but rathereaning in people's lives is endemic and has taken another toll on identity. tyrants of old like henry the eighth or louis the 14th, and then totalitarians like stalin and mao had aspirations limited at least to some extent by their reach. all the secret police and citizen snitches in the ussr could not quite reach into the minds of every citizen . by now, minds of every citizen. by now, the technology of the 21st century has overcome those limitations. now, those who crave total control of wealth, energy and food have the means at their disposal. witness to the attitude of the world economic forum and the politicians in its thrall . politicians in its thrall. listen to their notion of you'll own nothing and be happy. and remember that collectivisation under stalin, under mao in china was about abolishing private property, making it impossible for a middle class to aspire to far less achieve any kind of independence from the state. by now, the education of children has been all but capt

it's the chesterton's fence principle that presumably there was a 700 year old. right?editary lords. we don't know what taking that away does. i don't like this vandalism of the left. tony blairjust. he did an interview with the bbc the other day. he said, look at all the things we did. devolution. mayor of london i'm like, anything good, tony, are just awful things. so they. so you might say i'm defending it on principle, which i am . it on principle, which i am. they're the opposite. they attack it on principle. they see attack it on principle. they see a tradition and say, oh, we'll tearit a tradition and say, oh, we'll tear it down. so i'm against it. on those grounds. obviously it's nepotistic. and in that sense you could argue it's silly, but i'm just i'm always suspicious of this. labour need to just tackle everything they say. it's indefensible. that's the tactic. that's the blairite rhetoric. you just act as if it's been decided. >> it sounds like you're saying that the reason it's bad is it's coming from labour. >> but adam, well, farage is also against it, to

one of my favorite quotes is from gk chesterton because the people who came before us, they tried and failed and tried and failed to succeed in this is ideally did. we should be humble enough to give the dead essay and what we do because they tried and failed and tried and failed. the way that we ordered society was through those bad ideas and why should we go back and retry the ideas that always fail? why should be go back to a world where we have weird taxes in this country that actually the middle class and the poor. why should we go back to doing things that republicans long ago said this is not the way to order a society? also, why should we go back in a way to reorder society in ways that the left wants and embrace ideas from the left. i think it's time to have these conversations and i am excited to bring up on stage a sponsor. ] >> as i'm talking, everybody is rushes and gives me the schedule. also make sure that i get you out on time. first, tell us about the organization. >> yeah, absolutely. thank you for giving me the opportunity to introduce myself. my name is patrick, i