The rich feel much less need than their predecessors to account for their wealth, whether to society, to governments or to God. Their attitudes and values are not seriously challenged by anyone. The r...
Frank Olson had joined the Special Operations Division of the Army's Biological Laboratory at Fort Detrick at its inception in 1950. He was issued a Q clearance, the civilian equivalent of the militar...
Nice mix of Tory MPs saying this issue shouldn't be used for petty political pointscoring, & Tory MPs trying to score petty political points.
I certainly didn't concur with Edward on everything, but I was damned if I would hear him abused without saying a word. And I think this may be worth setting down, because there are other allegiances...
Our tolerance is part of what makes Britain Britain. So conform to it, or don't come here.
[The official prosecutors] ... were more vengeful on behalf of our injuries than I myself could ever be.
British diplomats and Anglo-American types in Washington have a near-superstitious prohibition on uttering the words 'Special Relationship' to describe relations between Britain and America, lest the...
One if by land, two if by sea.
Hating Britain is a fundamental part of being British
America: It's like Britain, only with buttons.
One of the benefits of aligning yourself with an indistinct cluster of people is that claiming to feel their pain is often enough.
Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you.
I want you to know that I have nothing against Orlando, though you are, of course, far more likely to get shot or robbed there than in London.
Let us make sure that the supreme fact of the 20th century is that they tread the same path.
I don't think wood was discovered in Britain until the 1970's. That's when I discovered it anyway.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
A library is a different kind of social reality (of the three dimensional kind), which by its very existence teaches a system of values beyond the fiscal.
But after all we are not children, not illiterate juvenile delinquents, not English public school boys who after a night of homosexual romps have to endure the paradox of reading the Ancients in expur...