At the Club

‘It’s the result of Board School Education—’

‘It’s the popular Press—’

‘It’s the selfishness of the Working Classes—’

‘It’s the Cinema—’

‘It’s the Jews—’

‘Paid Agitators!—’

‘The decay of faith—’

‘The disintegration of family life—’

‘I put it down,’ I said, ‘to sun-spots. If you want to know what I think,’ I went inexorably on, ‘if you ask me the cause of all this modern unrest—’