No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry.

The art of politics is to separate actions from consequences

No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry.

A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.

Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or whether it is now part of Malaysia and should be called Sri Lanka.

The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.

They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard.