The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils.

When we look at the astonishing material achievements of the West. we see these things as the result, not of compulsion or government action or the superior wisdom of a few, but of that system of competition and free enterprise, rewarding success and penalising failure, which enables every individual to participate by his private decisions in shaping the future of his society.

Lift the curtain and 'the State' reveals itself as a little group of fallible men in Whitehall, making guesses about the future, influenced by political prejudices and partisan prejudices, and working on projections drawn from the past by a staff of economists.

In the end, the Labour party could cease to represent labour. Stranger historic ironies have happened than that.

Paisley has been and remains a greater threat to the Union than the Foreign Office and the Provisional IRA rolled into one.

The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.

The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils.