The Day of the Nitwits: Remember the Triffids? Well, the Green zealots are nearly as dangerous, argues PETER HITCHENS

This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column

Are we at the start of some huge and endless decline? Or is there really nothing to worry about? 

Our current state reminds me of John Wyndham���s brilliant novel The Day Of The Triffids, in which small, even silly or enjoyable, events turn out to be signs of an approaching nightmare.

Wyndham sets his story in a very normal modern Britain. At first, people laugh at the ridiculous walking plants on the newsreels. At first, they gaze happily at t...