On both sides of the Tasman, too many of our MPs haven’t listened to the brilliant black American academic, Thomas Sowell, whose year working in the US Labor Department apparently reversed his commitment to Marxism. Equally as relevant as his conclusion – that ‘Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it’ – was his warning that minority groups can bully majorities, within their own country.