He is brilliant - to the top of his boots.

If you want to understand a subject promise to speak on it.

The home front is always underrated by Generals in the field. And yet that is where the Great War was won and lost. The Russian, Bulgarian, Austrian and German home fronts fell to pieces before their armies collapsed.

It is always too late, or too little, or both. And that is the road to disaster.

Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.

The government are behaving like a bevy of maiden aunts who have fallen among buccaneers.

We are fighting Germany, Austria and drink, and as far as I can see, the greatest of these three deadly foes is drink.