Christopher Hitchens on the term, political "spectrum"

The epithet is ubiquitous. Muttered daily. Here's what Christopher Hitchens makes of it:

"The use of “spectrum” is one of the hoariest and most conventional means of describing the demarcations of allegiance and alignment."

Dawkins on why the Left-Right Continuum is Insufficient

At 4 minutes 35 seconds Richard Dawkins explains persuasively why the traditional Left-Right spectrum employed to describe political viewpoints is insufficient. Saying that psychologists have long used multiple mathematical models to place and measure human behaviour.