Man at B&Q wrote:

HL Mencken “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the
populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing
it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”

How very true.
Interesting "Hard Talk" programme on BBCNews24. Some pompous BBC type
telling Greenland how to manage its affairs now that it's becoming a
green and pleasant land.