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

The BBC has taken to changing fact in programs about history. With the best of intentions, in the name of 'diversity', it is beginning to introduce people of African and other origins into historical scenes where they could not have featured. In one extreme, an individual stands for a figure that was not of that origin at all. History is becoming a device to modify the behaviour of society rather than a record of what happened. Ironically, those who argue that history has been distorted and

Picture:  Hear nothing, see nothing, say nothing. Politicians use PC trying to avoid change. The ghastly reality is they may well create an avoidable social catastrophe; do-nothing does not stop change. Stand back long enough, and events take over. People endlessly complain about PC but little about what says and what it is. PC has rules and is an ideology; it is used to modify law enforcement, to the extent that it brings law into disrepute. The reputation of the UK police, for instance,

Unlike the primitive argument in favour of EU Authoritarianism in the previous article, this one is radically more thorough. Please have patience; Democracy is a highly sophisticated political system. Several familiar canards, darling favourites of anti-democrats, are addressed below. You need power to get things done. Understanding this is essential to appreciate the part democracy has in any just, humane and efficient society. It is also key to understanding the waste, weakness, ignorance and

Picture: Socrates. Socrates used dialogues to make philosophical points. In one, he took the bully, Thrasymachus, to task. By asking questions, his victims were backed into a corner as their ideas proved weak and unsupported. Thrasymachus' 'might is right' was soon sent scurrying, with a good kick up the backside from the philosopher's boot. I am, of course, no Socrates- more's the pity, but I shall try my best. Instead of using that technique  the case for Authoritarian Rule shall be argued