"Of course great politicians are always liable to……" — Ferdinand Mount

"Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error."

— Ferdinand Mount

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Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability…
What the world needs now is more Americans. The U.S. is the first nation on earth deliberately dedicated to letting…
A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence.
According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to…
All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way…
For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells…
For the first half of this century, High Court judges have been cautious to the point of timidity in expressing…
I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the…
In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair…
Francis Wheen takes a hugely enjoyable sweep through the tangled thickets of superstition and gullibility in which modern man likes…
We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the…

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"Of course great politicians are always liable to……" — Ferdinand Mount

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