The Beatles can do a much better job than the Archbishop of Canterbury

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Permission is 'Fanny Hill' available only in an expensive edition. Permission is the deportation of Lenny Bruce, the Home Office file on Stokely Carmichael. Permission is still - Please sir, may I leave the room, sir? Permission implies the wisdom of an officially appointed elder brother. Permission satisfies only the powerful (who don't need it) and the timid (who ask little else from life). The permissive society is only a stage in the real, long, bloody struggle for freedom. It's easy to forget that every piece of liberty we own has been won in the struggle between the people and the ruling classes. Even the right to be cremated had to be fought for, at length, in the nineteenth century ... People are still refused admission to hotels, restaurants and so on because they wear the wrong kind of hair or clothes. For the same offences you can still be beaten up in the car park behind a pub, which is one of the reasons that the hippies prefer their own clubs. Very few of the boutique owners are anything to do with the Underground. They are part of the ancient commercial scene. They belong to the nation of boutique owners which Napoleon jeered at. The American Diggers, whose shops are crammed with free gifts and have nothing for sale, are playing a different and liberty ­loving game.