My mother mentioned she'd be sending me this article, which is always rather ominous - she usually does that to "win" some argument or other, with passages out of context triumphantly underlined or highlighted. (Does anyone else's mother do this? Or is it just mine??)
So I thought I'd better pre-empt her by looking it up.
here it is
Boris talks sense 90% of the time, and indeed does so for about 90% of this article, but then spoils it all by going off into some half-baked non-sequiturs about religion. I hope he doesn't really believe the guff he talks here about it. My feeling is that he doesn't.
He surely comes up with a partial answer earlier in the piece: that they, and other boys like them, are lacking the moral guidance of strong paternal discipline - i.e. a father figure in the here and now, rather than one in the imagined Hereafter.
Contrast Shaun Bayley's article on the same issue, which manages to come up with strong solutions without ever mentioning religion.