AN ORIGIN STORY BOOK'Provides clarity, scholarship, wit and essential insight into why our world is the way it is' Adam Rutherford'I wish I could make Ian and Dorian's work mandatory' Sathnam SangheraWhy is 'fascist' used to describe everyone from dictators to parking wardens?
At the dawn of history, when the Greeks began to create the foundations of democratic rule, their keenness to confirm the meaning of the nation's sovereignty and its being the source of authorities reached such an extent that they did not accept the principle of representative representation, but rather granted the right to attend the General Assembly of the People - that is, Parliament - to all citizens alike, instead of being represented by them.