The State's role in British mental health

As reported on by an experienced and conservative British journalist..

You need a sense of humour to read The Spectator and be informed of various tragically unfolding sagas of decay in (type 8) contemporary Western society.

It is after all in Shakespeare's Hamlet that one finds the phrases:

“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark”

“Brevity is the soul of wit”

“Though this be madness, yet there is method in't”

“That one …