It Is No Accident That

Politicians Who Complain About The Media Are Like Sailors Who Complain About The Sea.

Yet We Slink About Like Whipped Curs:;... Our Self-abasement Principally Takes The Form Of Subservience To The United States:;... We Are Under No Necessity To Participate In The American Nightmare Of A Soviet Monster Barely Held At Bay In All Quarters Of The Globe By An Inconceivable Nuclear Armament And By Political Intervention Everywhere From Poland To Cambodia. It Is The Americans Who Need Us In Order To Act Out Their Crazy Scenario... We Simply Do Not Need To Go Chasing Up And Down After The Vagaries Of The Next Ignoramus To Become President Of The United States.

Lift The Curtain And 'the State' Reveals Itself As A Little Group Of Fallible Men In Whitehall, Making Guesses About The Future, Influenced By Political Prejudices And Partisan Prejudices, And Working On Projections Drawn From The Past By A Staff Of Economists.

Of Course I Am Very Proud Of Being A Tory. Yes, In My Head And In My Heart I Regard Myself As A Tory. As I Have Said, I Was Born That Way; I Believe It Is Congenital. I Am Unable To Change It. That Is How I See The World... [the Eec] Is The Most Un-tory Thing That Can Be Conceived.

A Little Nonsense Now And Then Is Not A Bad Thing - Where Would We Politicians Be If We Were Not Allowed To Talk It Sometimes.