Euphemism Is A Human Device

Bismarck Had Cunningly Taught The Parties Not To Aim At National Appeal But To Represent Interests. They Remained Class Or Sectional Pressure-groups Under The Republic. This Was Fatal, For It Made The Party System, And With It Democratic Parliamentarianism, Seem A Divisive Rather Than A Unifying Factor. Worse: It Meant The Parties Never Produced A Leader Who Appealed Beyond The Narrow Limits Of His Own Following.

In The Long Term, It Is Desirable That The Human Race, Faced With The Prospect Of Extinction On Earth, Should Prepare An Escape Route For Itself To Another Inhabitable Planet.

If I See A Door Ajar, I Push On It To See How Far It Will Open, And If It Opens Wide I Go Through It.

John Major Is What He Is: A Man From Nowhere, Going Nowhere, Heading For A Well-merited Obscurity As Fast As His Mediocre Talents Can Carry Him.

Long Periods Of Recession, Which Tend To Be Self-perpetuating, Are Usually Ended By War, Or By Preparations For It.