If it wasn’t already obvious that society has lost the plot it has become so — the Scottish government is proposing to allow 12-year-old children to change their gender. Self-professed progressives who run many of our institutions think that they are being radical and enlightened by cheering on this infantile development. They couldn’t be more wrong.

In the late Seventies the brilliant American historian Christopher Lasch wrote the bestselling book The Culture of Narcissism. He described a society that was losing its moorings. Cut adrift from religion and then politics, he prophetically argued, the trend is for people to turn inwards to find a sense of meaning.

Fast forward 40 years and we find an ever-fragmenting world of identities in which the cult of