British - Writer | July 2, 1939 -
One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
Ferdinand Mount
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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 with what dear Simon has or has not written.
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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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According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama Bin Laden despite repeated warnings from his intelligence experts.
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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 young men law-abiding and giving them a sense of purpose and self-worth.
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America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.
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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 combined stability and flexibility and that we should not cast away in a minute what has taken generations to build.
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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 vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.
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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 of governmental action; the independence of the judiciary has been of a decidedly subordinate character.
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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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In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
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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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