It Is True That Too

In The End, It Is Because The Media Are Driven By The Power And Wealth Of Private Individuals That They Turn Private Lives Into Public Spectacles. If Every Private Life Is Now Potentially Public Property, It Is Because Private Property Has Undermined Public Responsibility.

Men And Women Do Not Easily Submit To A Power That Does Not Weave Itself Into The Texture Of Their Daily Existence - One Reason Why Culture Remains So Politically Vital. Civilisation Cannot Get On With Culture, And It Cannot Get On Without It.

Postmodernism Is Among Other Things A Sick Joke At The Expense Of... Revolutionary Avant-gardism.

Understanding Is Always In Some Sense Retrospective, Which Is What Hegel Meant By Remarking That The Owl Of Minerva Flies Only At Night.

[f]or The Most Part Football These Days Is The Opium Of The People, Not To Speak Of Their Crack Cocaine. Its Icon Is The Impeccably Tory, Slavishly Conformist Beckham. The Reds Are No Longer The Bolsheviks. Nobody Serious About Political Change Can Shirk The Fact That The Game Has To Be Abolished. And Any Political Outfit That Tried It On Would Have About As Much Chance Of Power As The Chief Executive Of Bp Has In Taking Over From Oprah Winfrey.