What connects the phone-hacking press scandal and the riots erupting around the country? At rock bottom it is the question of value, or values. Why do we hold certain things to be important, sacrosanct, precious, worthy of careful protection. And other things not. And, most importantly, where does consensus come from on those matters? A relativistic approach to truth claims there are no universal things that are true for everyone. Merely individual truths or personal preferences. Where the rubber hits the road with this pernicious teaching, is that the corollary is that there are no such things as reliable shared values and that authority is considered to be prima facae a bad thing - an imposition of power on freedom, a tyranny.