By the Editor – Have we overcorrected? Are we breeding a dependency culture open to the disingenuous to manipulate? Concern is an honourable trait, but excessive concern, in the longer term, perhaps endangers that which we seek to protect. We commemorate the end of the Second World War on 15 August – such horrors, repeated only in part today, seem to engender responses to overly shield our young. Are we doing our youth a disservice? Does that excessive shielding trickle down into the Armed Forces’ ‘seed corn’ and do we recognise the impact of that on the future moral component of our fig…
