HOW ROT SET IN
THE carnage at the Heysel Stadium in Brussels has been an occasion for comment of the most free-ranging kind. It has enabled everyone to publish his diagnosis of Britain's ills. It is the fault of Mrs Thatcher, unemployment and the Falk- lands, says one. It is the result of permis- siveness, pornography and a lack of disci- pline, says another. We are all guilty, says the Bishop of Liverpool. The most gallant attempt at this sort of thing is that made by the Prayer Book Society. Speaking at the celebrations of the society's tenth anniversary, held at Church House, West- minster, Professor Brian Morris attacked the liturgical reforms of the Church of England, saying: 'There is a direct line from the disaster in the Brussels Soccer Stadium to the Alternative Service Book.' The strange thing about this superficially ludicrous remark is that it is absolutely true.
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