Posted on 12/15/2024 10:53:22 AM PST by texas booster
The Seven Principles of Public Life, the Nolan Principles.
Committee on Standards in Public Life
Selflessness
Holders of public office should act solely in terms of the public interest.
Integrity
Holders of public office must avoid placing themselves under any obligation to people or organisations that might try inappropriately to influence them in their work.
They should not act or take decisions in order to gain financial or other material benefits for themselves, their family, or their friends. They must declare and resolve any interests and relationships.
Objectivity
Holders of public office must act and take decisions impartially, fairly and on merit, using the best evidence and without discrimination or bias.
Accountability
Holders of public office are accountable to the public for their decisions and actions and must submit themselves to the scrutiny necessary to ensure this.
Openness
Holders of public office should act and take decisions in an open and transparent manner. Information should not be withheld from the public unless there are clear and lawful reasons for so doing.
Honesty
Holders of public office should be truthful.
Leadership
Holders of public office should exhibit these principles in their own behaviour and treat others with respect. They should actively promote and robustly support the principles and challenge poor behaviour wherever it occurs.
The Seven Principles of Public Life (also known as the Nolan Principles) apply to anyone who works as a public office-holder.
This includes all those who are elected or appointed to public office, nationally and locally,
and all people appointed to work in the Civil Service, local government, the police, courts and probation services, non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs),
and in the health, education, social and care services.
All public office-holders are both servants of the public and stewards of public resources.
The principles also apply to all those in other sectors delivering public services.
The great UK professor discusses the Nolan Priciples, how it applies today, and the applications in modern life.
The Banality of Evil
Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, The New Yorker, 1963.
What did Hannah Arendt really mean by the banality of evil?
C.S. Lewis, Preface to The Screwtape Letters, 1942
“The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid dens of crime that Dickens loved to paint.
It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result.
But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices.”
This is a perfect video as we see the last of the Biden administration sleepwalk into the night.
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.
He is well worth following, to get a different perspective on modern life in the UK.
Thank you for posting this. Dr John Campbell is a treasure.
He was pro VidVax in the beginning. Then he woke up and admitted he was wrong and believed the blatant lies made about safety, effectiveness and limited to the muscle.
Thanks for posting. So where does this evil come from? It starts in the mind of the individual. Evil behavior starts with evil thinking. “Inside the Criminal Mind”- Stanton Samenow. When other individuals abandon their reason and take up with or submit to the evil individual, they become an evil collective. The evil individual on their own is not a threat to civilization. The evil collective is.
Indeed, evil starts in the heart of everyone.
Almost like everyone is born into sin ...
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