Oh fer fuxake .. so a senior aide worker can't even have a little pop at the local

[Burney]

Seriously, though, this from Matt Ridley in The Times today is on the money.

It's the ingrained cognitive dissonance I find so terrifying. People who seriously seem to believe that one can be simultaneously pro-Islam and supportive of gay and women's rights. Or who are happy to discriminate against people on the basis of their skin colour or sex in the name of 'equality'. Or those who will trumpet the cause of 'social justice' while simultaneously denying the right to free speech or advocating the removal of suffrage. To be able to glide through life in the apparently sincere belief that not only is there is no contradiction between these positions, but that holding them makes one inherently virtuous seems to me to require a level of delusion that is actively dangerous.
It's totalitarian, of course and Orwell spotted it first, of course. Once you allow - even force - people to accept obvious absurdities without challenge, you can pretty much get them to do anything. If you outlaw demonstrable truth and logic and make a virtue of lying, all bets are off.