The decline of civility

The effects of creating 'baiting crowds' on social media have diluted the parliamentary democracy

After returning to London on June 5, there has been one shocking event after another. A suicide bomber blew himself up at the entrance of a concert hall in Manchester as a hall full of teenagers exited. Three jihadists drove a truck through pedestrians on London Bridge before disembarking with knives and stabbing and killing people in restaurants and pubs nearby. Then on June 10, Theresa May’s electoral gamble to turn her 20-point poll lead into an impregnable Commons majority spectacularly failed, as the electorate (again defying the pollsters) elected a hung parliament. In the ensuing political chaos, accentuated by