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For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so…

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We want a system that will improve consistency and steadiness in the quality of government.

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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…

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America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.

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All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way of making…

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The president is being denounced for not taking the kind of pre-emptive action in Afghanistan that he has been so passionately denounced…

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Something is happening to Britain and the British. Or has happened. We are said to be passing through a transition, or a…

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A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence.

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Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the…

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We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.

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In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.

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According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action…

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If life was what you made of it, then it could not be made for you.

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Francis Wheen takes a hugely enjoyable sweep through the tangled thickets of superstition and gullibility in which modern man likes to ramble.…

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Defenders of the status quo will argue that this system has served us well over the centuries, that our parliamentary traditions have…

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I hate churches, all of them. But they used to know something about the importance of silence.

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I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing.

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One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.

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For the first half of this century, High Court judges have been cautious to the point of timidity in expressing any criticism…

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We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of…

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What the world needs now is more Americans. The U.S. is the first nation on earth deliberately dedicated to letting people choose…

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Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the…

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“The irreducible, ultimate element in religious faith is the insistence that we are created things; male and female He created them; without…

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Why should people be expected to think about the meaning of life merely because they happen to be ill? That is just…

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No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable.

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