BRITAIN is in revolt. Everybody who would be somebody must join a movement of protest. The most popular television programme yet mounted, in that it once attracted the greatest ever number of viewers, was a piece of undergraduate satire in which the juvenile lead, Master David Frost, became better knolvn than were either Napoleon or Al Capone at the same age; at a recent Convocation of Canterbury an eminent lay member has dismissed parts of the O ld Testament as “spiritual junk” and a Canon of the Church of England has described the 39 Articles of Religion as “fossilized” ; one bishop has written a best-selling book throwing doubt upon the existence of Almighty God Himself; Ihe Baptist Times went even further and suggested that it was time that the nation got rid of its Prime Minister. English soldiers known to foreign visitors by their red coats and bearskin headgear have, more than once in the last year, openly defied their officers and, what is more, on court martial, were not punished. There are some who regard this as an inevitable decay of English morals, particularly among the young; the Sunday Telegraph, a staunchly right-wing Conservative journal, in a recent leading article, suggested that the present British Government, Conservative for twelve years, may now be failing to give the moral leadership that the country expects. But in the writer’s view this explanation in terms of morality is too simple. The world is changing very rapidly, largely under the impact of science and technology, and values are changing, too. Technology introduces new possibilities for human freedom and the pompous authoritarianism of an ageing generation, that grandfather knows best, no longer convinces an infancy with one foot upon the threshold of the space age. Young people, as a university professor may be entitled to state, particularly resent the notion that their seniors know what is good for them; young people see themselves as threatened on all sides by the selfish follies of their parents, and will not take their moralising discourses as more than insult added to injury. However much the elders may deplore this, however much they may shake their heads over a youth that is morally corrupt, the simple fact is that young people everywhere are turning from the sermons of their elders with a sharp gesture of impatience. Their rejection of authority is not