The most contemptible thing a person can be in modern England is Don Quixote. That doesn’t deliver value to shareholders. That doesn’t win back the Red Wall. Righting wrongs and giving aid to orphans? That kind of thing would have us feeding the hungry; housing the homeless; opposing genocide. We simply can’t build windmills to save the planet, when there are so many sensible people ready to take up arms against them. To imagine that the world could be different is an affront to British values.
The trouble is that there are giants everywhere.