For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought… — Ferdinand Mount Copy Share Image
For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the… — Ferdinand Mount Copy Share
We want a system that will improve consistency and steadiness in the quality of government. — Ferdinand Mount Copy Share
It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what… — Ferdinand Mount Copy Share
All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way of making young men… — Ferdinand Mount Copy Share
The president is being denounced for not taking the kind of pre-emptive action in Afghanistan that he has been so passionately denounced for taking… — Ferdinand Mount Copy Share
Something is happening to Britain and the British. Or has happened. We are said to be passing through a transition, or a turning point,… — Ferdinand Mount Copy Share
A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence. — Ferdinand Mount Copy Share
Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the existence of… — Ferdinand Mount Copy Share
In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor. — Ferdinand Mount Copy Share
According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama… — Ferdinand Mount Copy Share
Francis Wheen takes a hugely enjoyable sweep through the tangled thickets of superstition and gullibility in which modern man likes to ramble. He takes… — Ferdinand Mount Copy Share
Defenders of the status quo will argue that this system has served us well over the centuries, that our parliamentary traditions have combined stability… — Ferdinand Mount Copy Share
