Broadcast yourself? We've had quite enough of that, thank you

MANY citizens think folk in the past were denser than they are today. In meta- historical circles, this is known as the Reverse Thicko Fallacy.

In fact, Cicero (or, in English, Colin), to take one example, was not as brainy as, say, Henry McLeish.

One of the reasons that, today, we think of the Romans as having been thick and evil was their awful concept of entertainment, which largely c...