Articles designed to show how mindless people are the real challenge and, sometimes, threat

Picture: Uncle Joe. Like his sibling dictator- a pure authoritarian. Politics has always divided into two. The Tennis Court 'left-right wing' illusion confuses people, mostly unaware of the real struggle going on for as long as politics has existed. It is so elemental, you could argue it's part of the nature of politics. Early in the French Revolution, a Tennis Court was the only place where a meeting could be held, as other buildings in Paris were shut off. On the left gathered those who

Democracy tunes into the instinct of millions; it is one of its greatest strengths. A lack of this sense normally destroys dictatorships. The Remain campaign assumed, as is usual in General Elections, that the most important thing is to get supporters out to vote and to stop them from listening to the other side. There's no point working areas dominated by rival parties to change their minds but to canvas heavily in places that already support your party, making sure to constantly insult the

The UK government is planning draconian fines and imprisonment for religious hate speech. It seems there is a relentless ratchet to greater authoritarianism in the minds of desperate politicians, unwilling to face the inevitable. They are like architects of a dam filling for the first time who have discovered a fatal design flaw. Rather than admit major reconstruction is essential to avoid disaster, they use the law to silence critics. Meanwhile, water continues to back up and, in due course,

Karl Marx changed history but hundreds died for every word of Das Kapital. Business could learn a thing or two from a fatal flaw at the heart of his theory. It seems obscure but, once understood, this flaw is of enormous political, philosophical and economic importance as if a pivot in the course of history itself. Influenced by Hegel, Marx developed a view of change which moved from thinking and argument through to all change itself. It was called Dialectical Materialism. I cannot say I