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

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

The EU Commission and its appointees hold the levers of power. The EU considers Democracy dangerous and has structured itself accordingly. This article, using EU sources reveals how it it works. You may heartily disagree with its conclusions, but the EU links do tell a revealing story. Appointed and unaccountable nature of EU Commissioners The Commission is partly made up of 28 appointees from each member state with a virtually bulletproof tenure of 5 years. These people are unelected and

Authoritarians are much the same, once you have stripped away their different, brightly coloured, alluring wrappers. They know everything and have plans for everybody. Listening and, if necessary, going along with things they do not absolutely agree with, is not for them. Tolerance of disagreement is anathema to self-entitled, moral know-alls. They plan a Heaven on Earth and, of course, it will need Dear Leaders who, by some strange coincidence are the moral super-beings who dreamed up the gift