The Fourth Rider of the Apocalypse is mounted on a pale horse; he is pestilence; he is disease. He has wiped out legions, annihilated armies, brought down nations, destroyed empires….
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell. – Walter Bagehot (Victorian journalist). The…
Though you may drive nature away with a pitchfork, she always returns – Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus, poet 65 BC to 8 BC) And Nature (interestingly Horace considered Nature a…
Bill Paterson is an actor and commentator As Health Secretary Matt Hancock flannelled his way through last Thursday’s Question Time on his preparations for possible massive self-isolation in the coming…
The UK has not, and never has been, a political democracy – Gerry Hassan Gerry Hassan is correct: Britain is not a full political democracy even though, perhaps surprisingly, it…
What has destroyed every previous civilisation has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power – Henry George (writer and economist) Capitalism is dying out all over…
There is no justification for the belief that, so long as power is conferred by democratic process, it cannot be arbitrary – Friedrich A Hayek (the late Austrian-British economist and…
We all learned from the sorry experience of state-sanctioned bureaucracies in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union; decentralising is crucial to both freedom and excellence . – Jerry Brown (then…
We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain only to see them re-imposed at European level, with a European super-state exercising a new dominance from…
A paraphrase: ‘To lose one library could be regarded as a misfortune, to lose two looks like carelessness.’ In the case of the Glasgow School of Art, Oscar Wilde might…