11 December

Ask anybody who works directly with the public, and I reckon you’ll find they all experience the same thing. Huge amounts of personal abuse, endless complaints. This is pretty interesting, because what actually happened was that we got rid of kings, whose arbitrary behaviour was like this, and turned each individual into a ‘sovereign’. What we call freedom is really this delegation of sovereignty to each person. It’s why people act like they’re royalty and you’re their servant. And why millions vote for somebody promising them sovereignty.