“Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.”
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The royals - all of them, especially Prince Philip and Prince Charles - have done outstanding work with the faith communities.
Some years ago there was a study to discover the most stressful occupation. It turned out not to be the head of a large business, football manager or prime minister, but rather: bus driver.
Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.
We need to rediscover the idea of the common good and work together to build a home.