Francis Wheen takes a hugely enjoyable sweep through the tangled thickets of superstition and gullibility in which modern man likes to ramble. He takes particular delight in reminding us how easily fools are parted from their money and how many… — 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 Image
We want a system that will improve consistency and steadiness in the quality of government. — Ferdinand Mount Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence. — Ferdinand Mount Copy Share Image
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 Image
In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor. — Ferdinand Mount Copy Share Image
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 Image
