Andrew Tate is the least of teenage boys’ problems

Gareth Southgate said that young men are going off the rails.

He said that they are wasting their time on lurid distractions, failing to develop respect for womenfolk and looking for role models in all the wrong places.

Southgate denounced Andrew Tate and other callous, manipulative and toxic influencers, whose sole drive is for their own gain’ as indeed anyone must who wants to be allowed to swim in the overheated pool of acceptable’ public discourse.

Jordan Peterson first emerged back in 2017 with a direct appeal to young men aspiring to develop actual traditional masculine virtues.

He may since have become eccentric and preoccupied with Biblical exegesis, but his 2018 breakthrough book, 12 Rules for Life, offered a message that Southgate would surely endorse.

And what did our cultural and political elites, who are now wringing their hands over Tate , do then? They denounced Peterson as near enough far right, a quasi- Christian hypocrite, a stern, conservative moralist, a charlatan, a cargo-cult intellectual.