Wow!
Astute indeed!
And quite thought provoking.
I didn't watch them all, but that Daniel Hannan sure dribbled a bib-full.
The cliche "those who ignore history are doomed to re-live it" springs to mind.
We see the centralisation of power happening here in God's Own Country too; with the power moving from the people to the faceless, nameless, cloned 'suits' of bureaucracy.

A few years back I took the Dept. of Conservation, Forest and Bird Society, and the South Taranaki District Council to court; they were jointly proposing legislation that I felt usurped their powers/mandate.
The most terrifying time of my life...here was I, a poor dumb peasant from the bush, facing a bevy of lawyers whose hourly rate was more than my monthly drawings.
But I beat them!
One up for the little guy!
They knew the theory, but I was well versed in the practical aspects of the argument...I compared them to eunuchs in a harem...they knew how it was done, saw it done every day; but were totally incapable of doing it.
So nil bastardo carborundum.
Don't let them grind you down.