Controversial I know, but I feel Britain is in a moral troff.  Our society needs some serious work – it’s a mess. We have unbelievable rates of under-age sex, under-age pregnancy, under-age abortions. We have the highest teenage pregnancy rate in the whole of Europe. This is not something to be proud of. In fact I’m extremely ashamed of our country when it comes to these issues.

What has  gone wrong? Are we not teaching sex education at an early enough age? Are we focusing too much on the facts of sexual education and not enough on the emotional side of sex? Is the age limit too high, or  not high enough? Is this  the fault of parents, for not instilling moral values?

We’re obviously missing something. When I look around at other cultures, I realise that Britain is short on morals. We’ve become a culture of casual sex and  binge drinking.

I’ve often  spoken against religion, for several reasons. But when I compare Britain to other cultures, with more morals and less under-age illegal activity, I come to the conclusion that Britain needs religion.

Religion teaches good moral values and the difference between right and wrong. Two things we really need to re-think in our current condition. Maybe schools should read extracts from the Bible, the Quran, the Torah etc.

13 year olds shouldn’t be getting drunk, doing drugs, smoking  and having one night stands. This is just wrong. Yet more and more of our children and teenagers are doing exactly this. Something has to change.