HEROIN CHIC

The BBC’s attitude towards illegal drugs is always suspect and thus when we read this story – which claims that if the State funds heroin addicts habits this then leads to a drop in the crime they carry out-it is right to be suspicious that we are being retailed a political line. I suppose the BBC quite ikes the idea that the British taxpayer funds heroin junkies, and sees no moral issues whatsoever, but I would have thought that they could have found someone – such as Theodore Dalrymple (aka Anthony Daniels)- who takes an opposing view on this issue and thus provide a degree of balance. No such luck.