PETER HITCHENS: Why didn���t Doctor Who warn us? Comprehensives are far scarier than Daleks

This is Peter Hitchens��� Mail on Sunday column

We have to face it. Doctor Who was a dismal failure at warning us of the perils to come. 

In my schooldays, William Hartnell went off into the future and found the Daleks, who could not even climb stairs and had no sense of humour.

But he did not discover comprehensive schools, in my view much, much more frightening than any Dalek. Had he done so, we would not have made that mistake.

Nor did he manage to warn us that criminal justice was going...